Hello, I have an issue with screen - it is very dark and it is even twice as darker as it used to be, and its just unusable
I don't really know why it is so - it can't be a physical damage, because I've been using this device for 3 months and never dropped it. BTW such issue was 3-4 or for times before and was cured by rebooting - now it doesn't help and even charging phone doesn't solve this problem.
I've been using the ROM - Cognition (some of the latest) and will try to flash back to stock, maybe it will solve my problem
Have you guys had such issue?
Have you tried changing you brightness settings?
after unlocking the screen slide your finger over status bar at top or where it should be if u could see it and see if that works.
lol, I know how to change brightness of the screen) but that's was awful, very dark screen and seemed like broken. after charging to 100% now it is fine, but I afraid I will have the same issue in the future
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oh, hell, AGAIN ((( Hope it's sofrware problem
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Did you try disabling the "power save" option to see if that was causing it?
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ricethief said:
Did you try disabling the "power save" option to see if that was causing it?
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just have tried it - no difference
flashing back to stock didn't solve the problem...
Seems like super amoled display is crappy....
anybody can help?
hey guys
You should have a year warranty through ATT if you got it that way ... otherwise, yikes.
tanneji said:
You should have a year warranty through ATT if you got it that way ... otherwise, yikes.
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not a USA citizen....
I even have no idea, why it happened, maybe because of that so much cold weather in Russia?
is this only happening when the battery charge is less than 10%? If so, that's by design.
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is this only happening when the battery charge is less than 10%? If so, that's by design.
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no, even with 100%
and it is even darker than when it used to be on 10%
today I was told that it's the screen problem and the only thing I can do is to replace it with the other screen, but unfortunetly, european Samsung Galaxy S screen is a bit different and the only place where I can replace it is the United States...
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Unrooted with latest ota and the screen just times out at random times. No matter what screen timeout is set on. Any help is appreciated.
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Sometimes I've got a case when screen doesn't time out at all. Including on latest 4.5.608 update. Reboot fixes it for me. Have you tried rebooting (with taking battery out before powering it on again to make sure it is a true cold boot)?
No I haven't, my case, makes it hard to do a battery pull, guess im just lazy. Will let you know the results. Thanks for the quick response
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Seems to have sufficed for now. Any idea what the cause might be?
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BrImStOnE UnLeAsHeD said:
Seems to have sufficed for now. Any idea what the cause might be?
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It's likely a bug of some sort. Hardware and software are so complex, it is impossible to make it perfect. But problems like this one aren't "turning the cart over" especially if they occur rather seldom and there is (somewhat) acceptable "workaround".
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Could be simpler?
My wife recently switched from Iphone 2G to a blazing droid 2 G, she was all happiness, but recently she started to complain the same thing your talking about (random screen timeout), so I tried his phone but the problem do not happened when I was using the phone, so after some intriguing days, I found something...
When she uses the phone, sometimes inadvertently she was blocking the sensors (in the upper right frame) that are triggered when you are in a call, causing immediately lock screen.
So, after being more cautious about not to block this part of the screen the problem didn't happen again.
I hope every one else suffers this simple problem instead of having a real hardware issue.
Saludos.
Just disable in-pocket detection.
Download Screebl from the Market. It can detect when your phone I actively being used and prevents screen timeouts until you put the phone down. Great app, I think you'll find it useful.
Gonna try the screebl app out, sounds pretty useful
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When ever my screen goes black in been opening apps or websites, I notice that there are lighter spots or smears, but they only show up on the black screen. Does anybody else have this, and or know what it is? besides on black screens, it really doesn't affect anything, but I worry it might get worse
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Do a search for "blobs"
There are quite a few posts on it. Some phones are worse than others. Both of our skyrockets have small identical blobs
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When ever my screen goes black in been opening apps or websites, I notice that there are lighter spots or smears, but they only show up on the black screen. Does anybody else have this, and or know what it is? besides on black screens, it really doesn't affect anything, but I worry it might get worse
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Currently having this issue with my white skyrocket as well.. Need to look for a solution.
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Sadly after 5 sr phones now having some sort of issue I don't think you will find a cure all solution that includes keeping the sr
The lines drove me crazy . . The blobs (in my case) I never see
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Currently having this issue with my white skyrocket as well.. Need to look for a solution.
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Sadly after 5 sr phones now having some sort of issue I don't think you will find a cure all solution that includes keeping the sr
The lines drove me crazy . . The blobs (in my case) I never see
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The lines are driving me insane as well. The blobs are noticeable in clockwork mod in the dark. I see like a bunch of black dots on my screen everywhere.... Damn.. is Samsung planning on fixing this issue for our phones?
They say they are "looking into it."
I only ever see the blobs on otherwise black screens if my eyes are very dark-adjusted. One example is if the phone is off and charging, and I wake it up (but don't turn it on) in the middle of the night.
That is: the blobs are the next best thing to a non-issue for me. The lines are a minor annoyance that I can ignore easily enough under almost all circumstance.
Both exist though, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. A little disappointing to be sure.
I've found that the best way to evaluate your phone for blobs is to take your phone, set it to the lowest brightness setting, use the Gallery to display the color #101010 on it, put the phone in a dark room, then use a DSLR camera on the no-flash setting to take a picture of it. You need to have NO light at all coming from anywhere else, so a closet or internal room with a counter works best. It'll take about 10 seconds to capture, during which the phone and the camera need to be perfectly still.
Ignore the green tint - it's a side-effect of the overexposure.
My results:
Phone 1: My mother's Skyrocket, purchased about a year ago.
Phone 2: My Skyrocket, purchased about 6mos ago. I gave the link for this image to an AT&T Rep in the Warranty dep't, and got an RMA ready within 10 minutes.
i charged it for a little this morning before i went to work and this happened
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i charged it for a little this morning before i went to work and this happened
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How new is the phone? Stock or custom? Have you tried a factory reset since you got the phone?
When I first got my HOX I was experiencing the same issue, it would happen ever so often. I did a factory reset and that seemed to fix the problem. I also installed CleanRom and I saw an improvement in my battery life as well. I know some people are experinceing heating issues that causes the batt to tank like that. Download GSM battery to see if an app is running in the background causing it to over heat. Also if you have your phone rooted you can DL SetCPU and set up a profile to underclock it when it get's too hot.
It's happened to many people before.
Nobody knows why it happens, but people say restarting it helps sometimes
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How new is the phone? Stock or custom? Have you tried a factory reset since you got the phone?
When I first got my HOX I was experiencing the same issue, it would happen ever so often. I did a factory reset and that seemed to fix the problem. I also installed CleanRom and I saw an improvement in my battery life as well. I know some people are experinceing heating issues that causes the batt to tank like that. Download GSM battery to see if an app is running in the background causing it to over heat. Also if you have your phone rooted you can DL SetCPU and set up a profile to underclock it when it get's too hot.
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His is obviously custom. Status Bar gives that away.
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sy7hf7tgtgrf said:
His is obviously custom. Status Bar gives that away.
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Maybe this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777226
Were you using Chrome with tilt scrolling enabled? (It's enabled as default) That can eat your battery in a few minutes. Or maps?
My only guess because the significant drain happened when screen was awake and phone on.
I don't think it's the signal bug... It shows your signal as straight green, so it's consistent.
Did anyone else think this would be a sense pun?
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Check this one out. I went to bed with about a 75% charge and woke up with a completely dead phone.
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Check this one out. I went to bed with about a 75% charge and woke up with a completely dead phone.
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Wow. Has that happened before?
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That's happened to me too. Bizarre.
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Wow. Has that happened before?
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Nope. First time anything like this has ever happened. No idea what the hell caused it.
I was having issues like this too. He's running Xi40. I had that problem with that ROM too. Went to bed with it fully charged, woke up with it at 47%. Huge down spikes in the middle of the night for no apparent reason.
Flashed CleanROM 4.5 RC1 and the difference is amazing. Went out for over 10 hours yesterday and used it moderately and only consumed 34%. Something is up with that ROM. I have CleanROM setup and all the same apps installed as I did with Xi40 but the battery lasts much longer.
htc seem to have issues writing battery drivers.
the sensation and evo 3d battery drivers were completely ****ed up and htc managed to only fix the evo 3d but not the sensation
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Maybe this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777226
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The network signal in the pic is fully green, no signal drops. Signal drops show as red. Also, from what I've seen, the dropped data signal issue results in a really steep line, but not a dead vertical one. This looks more like the incorrect voltage being read, and the volt meter correcting itself.
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The network signal in the pic is fully green, no signal drops. Signal drops show as red. Also, from what I've seen, the dropped data signal issue results in a really steep line, but not a dead vertical one. This looks more like the incorrect voltage being read, and the volt meter correcting itself.
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Or, since the phone was awake and the screen was on, it was heavily loaded (process stuck at 99% cpu, benchmarking, etc.). Either way, nothing to see here, move along.
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The network signal in the pic is fully green, no signal drops. Signal drops show as red. Also, from what I've seen, the dropped data signal issue results in a really steep line, but not a dead vertical one. This looks more like the incorrect voltage being read, and the volt meter correcting itself.
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+1 on the volt meter not reading properly.
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Or, since the phone was awake and the screen was on, it was heavily loaded (process stuck at 99% cpu, benchmarking, etc.). Either way, nothing to see here, move along.
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I don't think you will see a vertical drop, no matter how heavily you load the CPU. A steep line, yes. But the vertical line indicates an instantaneous (or near instantaneous) drop in voltage. My guess is still that on an incorrect voltage reading, and the voltmeter suddenly adjusting for the error. As others have mentioned a factory reset resolves the issue, its possible some residual battery meter data is left over from a previous ROM.
My epic 4g touch has been dying at random and the screen flickers before doing so. Many times it tells me theres at least 60% but it dies but usually its very random when it shuts off. I'm running android 4.2 and my galaxy s2 is fairly new. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?
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My epic 4g touch has been dying at random and the screen flickers before doing so. Many times it tells me theres at least 60% but it dies but usually its very random when it shuts off. I'm running android 4.2 and my galaxy s2 is fairly new. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?
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I have no experience with that particular device, but any time there are actual non-binary hardware issues (screen flickering as opposed to, say, simple hard reboot) I get concerned that it's going to be a quagmire rather than a simple fix. Are you still under warranty? Unless others have had similar issues (which should be subject to a Google search) I would say a) replace the batter or b) contact the manufacturer. Sorry for the lack of insight.
By flickering do you mean getting a jagged black screen around the edges,a second before it dies? (I have this problem on my mango, still looking for the reason. )
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Its just the whole screen flickering. My guess is that my battery calculation is off or something thinking there's more/less battery than what really is there.
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Thanks for the info, I think the battery is just messed up because the battery terminals are a little faded. I sure hope its not a hardware error in my phone because I don't have a warranty
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I just want to get a consensus on two issues I've noticed with the upgrade to Android M.
First, is anyone else having a problem when swapping batteries around the 15% mark the phone not recognizing the proper battery power after swap. (I.e. still indicating low power)
Second, with headphones plugged in if you restart phone it will not boot past the LG screen or AT&T screen.
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I just want to get a consensus on two issues I've noticed with the upgrade to Android M.
First, is anyone else having a problem when swapping batteries around the 15% mark the phone not recognizing the proper battery power after swap. (I.e. still indicating low power)
Second, with headphones plugged in if you restart phone it will not boot past the LG screen or AT&T screen.
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Well thats sucks. Sorry to hear your having issues. Could you tell me how you updated to MM? Aswell as if you did it over wifi or data connection?
Over wifi. I've factory reset my phone since having those issues and it's still there. I'm mostly wondering if there is anyone else cause I would like to make a report to AT&T through a family member that works with the company.
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I know I should have probably posted this in ts'ing forum, however, I'm not looking for a fix or solution. Just getting a consensus to see if anyone else is having those issues.
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Halo13Ghost said:
I know I should have probably posted this in ts'ing forum, however, I'm not looking for a fix or solution. Just getting a consensus to see if anyone else is having those issues.
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MM has been out for a little over 4 months and i havent seen your same issues reported. Not say nobody is having them. But im not even finding them in the tech media stream. Its mostly MM specific, not carrier. So at&t probably is not going to do anything, if they even have the ability. As far as your case goes, i would look into getting a new one.
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I just want to get a consensus on two issues I've noticed with the upgrade to Android M.
First, is anyone else having a problem when swapping batteries around the 15% mark the phone not recognizing the proper battery power after swap. (I.e. still indicating low power)
Second, with headphones plugged in if you restart phone it will not boot past the LG screen or AT&T screen.
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I had the battery indicator issue once. I've had MM on my v10 since it was available for ATT and never had the issue until about 2 weeks ago. It seems to be a one time random thing for me because it hasn't happened again. I am having issues with what looks like screen burn in but I know it's not that since its an LCD. Most of the time it's there and sometimes it's not. I don't think it's related to MM because I noticed the same thing on LP.
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I had the battery indicator issue once. I've had MM on my v10 since it was available for ATT and never had the issue until about 2 weeks ago. It seems to be a one time random thing for me because it hasn't happened again. I am having issues with what looks like screen burn in but I know it's not that since its an LCD. Most of the time it's there and sometimes it's not. I don't think it's related to MM because I noticed the same thing on LP.
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Its true LCD screens dont burn, but they do produce "ghost images" from the same cause of image burn. LCD screens also require a still image on the screen longer for them to produce the "ghost images" but usually are not permanent. So if you have not left your phone on a single image for a long period of time, then you probably have a faulty screen.
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