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Got it in the mail today - T-Mo CS has been great so far - overnighted me a new one.
I just finished setting it up which took only 1 hour (thank you fast WiFi and Google restore).
Some things I've noticed so far.
- This one has a HUGE backlight bleed in the bottom right corner. It's really gross. The other corners and edges are fine although there is some I don't care. My original G2X seems had no blacklight bleed at all compared to this. Huge bummer with this..since if I want to keep the replacement I have to sacrifice screen quality.
- The power button is stiffer and nicer to click than my original G2X which was a bit squishy...silly but noticed it right away
- I used the Google restore so it reinstalled the same 72 apps I had installed on my original G2X at boot up. During this time the replacement G2X didn't heat up at all while I remembered my original G2X heated up considerably during the install. Not sure why this is.
- The screen feels more responsive than the original G2X. Feel this using keyboard, sliding lock screen and general use.
- Battery life (probably an anomaly) seems better on this phone doing similar tasks. Will need to test for longer period to be sure.
I'm going to now use the replacement as my phone for the next 72 hours (need to use on workdays too) and I'll report back on whether I still have any reboots or freezes that I had on my original G2X.
I'm half hoping I do and don't. If I don't, there's a chance it's a hardware issue and I have to decide to keep the new one with a worse screen. If I do, then it's software and will be fixed on my old one so I can go back to it.
We shall see...
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I used the Google restore so it reinstalled the same 72 apps I had installed on my original G2X at boot up.
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Could you explain that process in detail? When I switched from my Nexus One to the G2x, Market listed my paid apps as "purchased," but it didn't install any apps at all, neither free nor purchased. I'd like to try the factory-reset approach people have mentioned as improving their battery performance, but I really don't want to have to search for and manually install the 70-80 apps I have on my phone currently.
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Could you explain that process in detail? When I switched from my Nexus One to the G2x, Market listed my paid apps as "purchased," but it didn't install any apps at all, neither free nor purchased. I'd like to try the factory-reset approach people have mentioned as improving their battery performance, but I really don't want to have to search for and manually install the 70-80 apps I have on my phone currently.
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Sure! Make sure in Settings-> Location & Privacy -> Backup my data/restore my data are both checked and it's tied to your primary GMaila ccount. I don't know how frequently it backs up and there's manual way to do a backup.
However, what will happen is when you factory reset and login with this GMail account it will not only restore contacts, calendar, email,etc. but all the apps you had installed (purchased and free) at the last backup. It will do this all in the background so you can use your phone for other stuff. The only indication is the SYNC icon in the notification bar. Once done it will show a notification that says "XX applications successfully restored" and you're done.
You can then go into Market and put on other ones that may have been missed, etc.
It will also restore your WiFi AP passwords and settings including other settings, It's pretty cool
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- This one has a HUGE backlight bleed in the bottom right corner. It's really gross. The other corners and edges are fine although there is some I don't care. My original G2X seems had no blacklight bleed at all compared to this. Huge bummer with this..since if I want to keep the replacement I have to sacrifice screen quality.
We shall see...
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this is the exact reason i'm undecided about sending mine back. mine is slight in the top right corner. i can only see it if i hide the status bar with adw. i'm just worried that i'm going to get one that's worse. or get someones refurbished bleeding to death device. have no idea what i'm going to do. just over a week to get my cash back. or live with it. or play the mail game with tmo, sending devices back and forth till i get one to my liking. i just unrooted and restored stock recovery incase i send it back. knowing me, cyan will release tonight and i'll install it and keep it. lol. my head is spinning from trying to decide. 500 bucks for an inferior screen? my g1 had no bleeding. after just saying that, i think i'm gonna play the mail game with tmo. it's friggin 2011. i demand better for my hard earned money. plus, if we all just accept it, it gives the manufacturers no reason to improve upon things. if enough people say no, they'll get the hint.
What you describe is what I expected to happen, but it didn't. It occurs to me that this probably didn't happen for me in the switch from the Nexus One to the G2x because the N1 was running Gingerbread and the G2x is still on Froyo.
Anyhow, I'm glad to know that it does work at least in some circumstances, and I've had those settings since I first configured the device, so maybe I'll be brave and try the factory reset. Thanks for taking the time to answer.
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this is the exact reason i'm undecided about sending mine back. mine is slight in the top right corner. i can only see it if i hide the status bar with adw. i'm just worried that i'm going to get one that's worse. or get someones refurbished bleeding to death device. have no idea what i'm going to do. just over a week to get my cash back. or live with it. or play the mail game with tmo, sending devices back and forth till i get one to my liking. i just unrooted and restored stock recovery incase i send it back. knowing me, cyan will release tonight and i'll install it and keep it. lol. my head is spinning from trying to decide. 500 bucks for an inferior screen? my g1 had no bleeding. after just saying that, i think i'm gonna play the mail game with tmo. it's friggin 2011. i demand better for my hard earned money. plus, if we all just accept it, it gives the manufacturers no reason to improve upon things. if enough people say no, they'll get the hint.
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I'm torn too. If this phone doesn't reboot or have any issues at all then I'll probably keep it even though the blacklight bleeds in one corner. This appears to be the current quality of most panels as nearly every ipad2 it seems has horrible blacklight bleed (including my wife's). I can live with a lower quality screen in exchange for a better overall and more stable device.
I bought my first g2x in store on the 20th and had over 20 freezes/reboots in the first 24 hours. Replaced it and now running over 24 hours with no reboots and three full charge cycles without a single hitch. I highly suggest getting a replacement if you have the reboot issue.
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Well that's the end of that. My replacement rebooted in the middle of the night while charging which my current phone has never done. So I'm back to my original G2X and I'm keeping it. Its obvious this is some type of software issue and not hardware. My original is perfect hardware wise with no bleeding at all.
I guess now I just wait until either LG patches the phone or CM7
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Is it just me or does the auto-brightness seem to only stay at a certain brightness and never change? On my previous phone, usually when I had auto-brightness enabled, whenever I walked into a dark room, my brightness would lower right away but on this phone, no matter where I go, the brightness seems to always be the same with auto-brightness on. The brightness does not change, even when I walk out with the sun out..
Can anybody confirm this please, I'm thinking of exchanging this unit as it might be defective...
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Might be your phone. In my moderately-lit office, I can definitely see the screen brightness change when I focus a flashlight on the sensor and then take it away. It's not a huge difference, but definitely observable.
Do you use a case? Is the case blocking the light sensor?
I do not use a case. I have also tried blocking the sensor with my fingers and the brightness just seems to always stay the same... also when I use the power control widget to change brightness and set it to auto-brightness it immediately jumps to that same particular brightness level that I've been stating
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I was noticing this as well. It seems to just go to medium brightness and stay there all day. I never notice any changing.
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I was noticing this as well. It seems to just go to medium brightness and stay there all day. I never notice any changing.
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That's exactly what I'm experiencing, glad to know I'm not the only one..
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The change is definitely less noticeable on this phone than my Nexus One, but is there.
I just got the G2x and it does the same for me. It's range of brightness seems to be 20-30% and that's it. I had this problem with stock gingerbread, so I tried rooting and installing CM7, but same problem. So I got it set to manual 10/40/100 on my power control.
My friend said his original droid did this for quite a while until a software update came along a few months later. Maybe we just have to wait till there's a software update to fix it?
Yes, it's borked, always has been.
Mine is broken too. Same happens to me.
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Same here. It has never worked, as far as I can remember. Depending on where the setting happens to be left at, my battery runs out in just a few hours, or I cannot use it in the car.
Aside: I switched to an original Droid from an iPhone 3G, then onto a G2X. My next phone is going to be an iPhone -- and I'm not coming back to Android until Google figures things out. Android is nice, but I hate being out of date after a couple of months, and having to install unsupported, hacky, half-broken user-built ROMs to stay current with the state-of-the-art functionality.
And I'm the whitest person I know. Who the hell advertised any variation of the OLED technology to be completely black? I can put up an all black screen and go in a completely black room with no windows and I can see a slight grey-ish. I noticed this on my Zune HD like a month after I got it, as well. It's not too bad on my Infuse but it's easily noticed if you were in a very dark place, which I often am.
So who let someone decide that OLED, when turned to black, is actually off? Complete lie IMO.
And yes I've stayed on a black screen for like 20 minutes to let any of that residual charge go away that you sometimes see in monitors and lights after you turn them off, still grey.
This however, I am less concerned about: Why does my phone still use data on my AT&T data plan when I set packet data to off and turn wifi on? Not as big an issue but I just noticed I used 60MB of my 200MB plan in like 10 minutes which could be a problem if I forget it does that and start streaming music or something.
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And I'm the whitest person I know. Who the hell advertised any variation of the OLED technology to be completely black? I can put up an all black screen and go in a completely black room with no windows and I can see a slight grey-ish. I noticed this on my Zune HD like a month after I got it, as well. It's not too bad on my Infuse but it's easily noticed if you were in a very dark place, which I often am.
So who let someone decide that OLED, when turned to black, is actually off? Complete lie IMO.
And yes I've stayed on a black screen for like 20 minutes to let any of that residual charge go away that you sometimes see in monitors and lights after you turn them off, still grey.
This however, I am less concerned about: Why does my phone still use data on my AT&T data plan when I set packet data to off and turn wifi on? Not as big an issue but I just noticed I used 60MB of my 200MB plan in like 10 minutes which could be a problem if I forget it does that and start streaming music or something.
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Perhaps if you turn down the brightness (disable the auto brightness option first) you can see more pure black...
Too bad you don't have a Motorola Atrix to compare the blackness with though
If you did you would see a day and night difference in the two phones.
Yeah my friend has an atrix and I had a blackberry, I know LCD is worse but it shouldn't have ever been said that OLED is actually 100% black when it's black.
Any idea about the data thing though? I assume it's android or samsung's fault and not AT&T's.
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Yeah my friend has an atrix and I had a blackberry, I know LCD is worse but it shouldn't have ever been said that OLED is actually 100% black when it's black.
Any idea about the data thing though? I assume it's android or samsung's fault and not AT&T's.
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I am almost sure that if you have the packet data turned off that the phone will only use wifi... The phone may still count the kbytes used, but it does not go on your bill it is perhaps only for your information and if you have a 200K plan check and see if it used any of the 200K after you surf the web with wifi and packet data off.
Another way to be sure its really not using your data network is simply turn off the wifi completely and keep the packet data off too, try connecting to internet, it should not connect.. If it does not connect you can be sure that when wifi is on and packet data is off that you will not be using any of your 200K limit.. It should only connect to internet if you turn wifi on again or packet data. Just be sure that you remember to turn off the packet data if you do not want to use it.
I have had my Infuse now for close to 3 months and never got charged for DATA at all, I do not even have a DATA plan and I only use Wifi (I use wifi a lot!).
Hmmm.. odd. Now it's giving me another plan with 0MB used, but I used a ton of data on my 3g plan. What's a good way to use like 3MB so I can tell which one is my current plan?
When I check my account it has one that's like 57.2MB of 200MB (Deactivated)
but one is 0 of 200MB, but I know I've downloaded at least .1MB of apps just via "4"g. Probably more than 10. So I have no idea what's going on.
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Hmmm.. odd. Now it's giving me another plan with 0MB used, but I used a ton of data on my 3g plan. What's a good way to use like 3MB so I can tell which one is my current plan?
When I check my account it has one that's like 57.2MB of 200MB (Deactivated)
but one is 0 of 200MB, but I know I've downloaded at least .1MB of apps just via "4"g. Probably more than 10. So I have no idea what's going on.
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Just watch a couple of short YouTube videos .. That should do the trick.
Check data usage after that.
Neither of them changed... Not sure whether to call AT&T so they don't get mad that the meter hasn't been ticking, or abuse the hell out of it and download and stream everything in sight.
Also, does anyone know how to edit the dock at the bottom without a custom ROM or anything like that? The email thing is incredibly stupid since it already comes with GMail and it IS Google's os. Also I want my opera to be down there, **** uncompressed data.
Edit: oh my god.. if one more thing is wrong with this phone i'm taking it back, it freely removes whatever apps it feels like whenever it feels like it.
Jeez you've got a lot of small problems. As for the dock it is very easy. There are threads on here I know of that explain it step by step. I would explain but I'm at work and takes forever to try and say all of it on my phone.
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Neither of them changed... Not sure whether to call AT&T so they don't get mad that the meter hasn't been ticking, or abuse the hell out of it and download and stream everything in sight.
Also, does anyone know how to edit the dock at the bottom without a custom ROM or anything like that? The email thing is incredibly stupid since it already comes with GMail and it IS Google's os. Also I want my opera to be down there, **** uncompressed data.
Edit: oh my god.. if one more thing is wrong with this phone i'm taking it back, it freely removes whatever apps it feels like whenever it feels like it.
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Go to the Applications screen, click your menu button, click view type, change it to customizable grid, then hit the menu button again and click edit, and then you can move whatever wherever you would like.
And for the apps disappearing, make sure they aren't on your external SD card under manage applications. If they are then move them to your phone.
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Go to the Applications screen, click your menu button, click view type, change it to customizable grid, then hit the menu button again and click edit, and then you can move whatever wherever you would like.
And for the apps disappearing, make sure they aren't on your external SD card under manage applications. If they are then move them to your phone.
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Thanks, got opera and GMail down in the dock. And the apps were saved to my SD, and I had to unmount it to root it and I realized that after I had reinstalled them all lol.
noone says oled has true black, but in thory it could, it is a matter of drivers and controlers. im sure if they accomplish true blacks there would be anomilies as they switch pixels on and off without a lot of tweaking.
this screen is far better in black level than my plasma tv, im not complaining. if you put a standard lcd next to it you certainly see a difference.
im curious about the screens on the i9003 and i9023(lcd varients of the galaxy and nexus s) as well as the sony arc and lg optimus black. they are all supposed to have super high contrast, not sure if it will compare or not.
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noone says oled has true black, but in thory it could, it is a matter of drivers and controlers. im sure if they accomplish true blacks there would be anomilies as they switch pixels on and off without a lot of tweaking.
this screen is far better in black level than my plasma tv, im not complaining. if you put a standard lcd next to it you certainly see a difference.
im curious about the screens on the i9003 and i9023(lcd varients of the galaxy and nexus s) as well as the sony arc and lg optimus black. they are all supposed to have super high contrast, not sure if it will compare or not.
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lolok, you can google "OLED black" and get about 4.5 trillion results that are all news articles saying something along the lines of "this new technology would produce no light when it's displaying black, as opposed to an LCD, which is always producing light while it is turned on."
But I can understand that it actually won't for a while, and probably never will.
dude give it up. you have the blackest blacks available and yoy complain that there is light there if you lock yourself in a darkroom.
this is far better than any tv panel and other manufacturers claim things much more laughable. look at a sony lcd with infinite dynamic contrast, the claim is obserd that it appears to have infinite contrast. just because some articles have a mis understanding of oled as it is implemented doesn't mean you were lied to. Samsung may say "blackest blacks" but nowhere does it say zero light emision on black pixels. get over your self you didn't notice anything significant and you can't even see the light on a black screen in moon light. for the sake of argument this screen gets black!
Cool story, troll.
To anyone else: this is probably really stupid but is there no way to set a custom general ringtone? I know you can set one for individual contacts, but that would take 10 hours and what about people that aren't in my contacts?
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Cool story, troll.
To anyone else: this is probably really stupid but is there no way to set a custom general ringtone? I know you can set one for individual contacts, but that would take 10 hours and what about people that aren't in my contacts?
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you have to add like a "media" folder on the sdcard and it shows up in the list or something i dont remember.
And with the last thing I'll ever find wrong with this phone, I return it. Data usage WILL NOT STOP going up, even though I have packet data off and am connected to wifi. I'd rather have a data-planless piece of **** that won't overcharge me $200 each month.
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And with the last thing I'll ever find wrong with this phone, I return it. Data usage WILL NOT STOP going up, even though I have packet data off and am connected to wifi. I'd rather have a data-planless piece of **** that won't overcharge me $200 each month.
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Have fun with your dumbphone. Good riddance.
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Have fun with your dumbphone. Good riddance.
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Lol yeaaa buddy damn angry trolls getm gtg
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Troll harder, bro.
um... hi. is it supposed to get 10x worse in the first week of use? its worse than an LCD, easily noticed yellowish gray in a well lit room...
also. now my screen is clearly quite red on the bottom and blue on top.. time to take it back to att?
I hardly use my phone. I have a Galaxy S3 bought at the end of July 2012. The last couple days I noticed the burning through of my Home Screen. Its obvious when I have a white screen over it. Its disgusting to think that is happening on a phone not 3 months old yet. I am taking it to the Sprint store on Saturday Oct 13, 2012 to see what bs they give me. When I saw this I thought it was normal so I took it over to a friends house who uses his new S3 15 hours a day and he was shocked to see this.
Hmm... this is pretty weird. Are you stock? If not what Rom and kernel are you using? I'm just wondering if there are any display tweaks or if you made any tweaks that could have caused this. Do you always run full brightness?
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Hmm... this is pretty weird. Are you stock? If not what Rom and kernel are you using? I'm just wondering if there are any display tweaks or if you made any tweaks that could have caused this. Do you always run full brightness?
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Also, what is your screen timeout set to? Do you ever leave the screen on (knowing it will turn itself off in a few minutes)?
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I hardly use my phone. I have a Galaxy S3 bought at the end of July 2012. The last couple days I noticed the burning through of my Home Screen. Its obvious when I have a white screen over it. Its disgusting to think that is happening on a phone not 3 months old yet. I am taking it to the Sprint store on Saturday Oct 13, 2012 to see what bs they give me. When I saw this I thought it was normal so I took it over to a friends house who uses his new S3 15 hours a day and he was shocked to see this.
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That's weird. Are you sure it's actually screen burn and not the system software keeping a ghost image?
Also, why would you bring your Verizon phone to the Sprint store? Since this is the Verizon forum I'm assuming that's your carrier.
Well image persistence is a well documented issue on AMOLED screens, so its not something that is unheard of. It is kinda strange to see it on a lightly used phone, however. I would also be curious to know your screen timeout settings. Also, can you think of any situation at all where your screen might have remained on for an extended period?
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Well image persistence is a well documented issue on AMOLED screens, so its not something that is unheard of. It is kinda strange to see it on a lightly used phone, however. I would also be curious to know your screen timeout settings. Also, can you think of any situation at all where your screen might have remained on for an extended period?
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Ok... My timeout screen is set at two minutes. Yes it is at its brightest level automatic off. Now over the last couple weeks. I had it on for a long time on my desk/ overnight maybe 3 days. As someone said before, as a glamorous clock. No excuses there, but I wasn't aware of screen burn like this. Now those 3 days of overnight probably was more than 10x the amount the phone has ever been used. Since July 1 10 minutes of phone usage, and I've used it stream music from my pogo plug.
Sorry about the Verizon Forum... I didn't notice that until I posted this, and I don't know how to move it to the Sprint Forum. If mod wants to move thats perfect.
Sprints' answer today, was that they wanted to charge me $35 to hard reset because I don't have service plan. I did not feel I should have to pay to check out the phone. I've been a customer of Sprint since the very beginning. A CUSTOMER, Who never uses the two phones it subscribes to. If they were to look at my records for the last 20 years, they would be amazed at the non usage. I think I started with a $5 a month plan back in the day. Now $125, they have made plenty of money on my account for all those years. I told the sprint store rep that Samsung has a 1 year warranty on this... His answer, "then deal directly with Samsung. We will charge $35 to diagnose the problem." It was a hard stance by this store. I've dealt with them when I got this phone with a scratched screen, and also a hard stance with replacing it in 20 days. Its my fault because I don't use the phone, but when I looked I saw the scratch. By replacing the phone then, I used up my 90 day warranty to replace the phone I think. So now of course I have nothing to work with. I will be connecting with Executive Offices in Virginia on Monday Morning, hopefully I can get a decent response from them. All this over $35 and Screen Burn.
Ah yes leaving the screen on overnight several times is definitely enough to permanently damage the screen. Full brightness also didnt help. I can't say its your fault, because this type of issue isnt very well reported on (or disclosed). I love the beautiful brilliance of AMOLED, but its unfortunate that they cant handle long periods of use. Sorry for your luck, wish there was something more I could say.
I'd your phone the blue one?
I've seen very bad burn in on the store demos.
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I'd your phone the blue one?
I've seen very bad burn in on the store demos.
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No its a white phone, now with SCREEN BURN ! You'd think they would warn people of this, but I guess not. We'll have to see what sprint says next week. If nothing from them I'll just send it to Samsung for year warranty period. I Don't use the phone that much anyway. Its a glorified MP3 player for me.
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No its a white phone, now with SCREEN BURN ! You'd think they would warn people of this, but I guess not. We'll have to see what sprint says next week. If nothing from them I'll just send it to Samsung for year warranty period. I Don't use the phone that much anyway. Its a glorified MP3 player for me.
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Screen burn in general is a very OLD concept... if you've used computers at all while growing up and are older than 10, you should have an idea about screen burn and make sure you take steps to prevent it if you are not sure of your device or know your device is susceptible to it. :-/
There are two types of burn, screen burn and image retention. This could just be image retention and can be fixed with a rotating pattern of static images. At least that is what you do with plasma tvs but it wouldn't hurt to see if you can do the same with a phone.
Update. Talked to sprint exe offices. I will have to pay the $35 up front, but then scan receipt and send back to Sprint to get it refunded. Sprint store verified screen burn and ordered new phone.
Ok... I like the phone bright. If doing this puts my phone at risk for screen burn... what do I have to do to my settings to stop this from happening again? I do prefer the phone to stay on for more than a couple minutes when I'm using it and of course the brightness.
It is the nature of Amoleds. If you do any reading on them it explains why they burn in so bad. So far every Samsung I've seen with an Amoled has burn in. Moment, Epic, Epic touch, Galaxy Nexus, and even the GSIII.
As mentioned earlier, you just have to take precautions.
Just don't leave the screen on overnight and you shouldnt have a problem.
I have two G3's, the one I use as my DD shows the exact same thing.
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Update. Talked to sprint exe offices. I will have to pay the $35 up front, but then scan receipt and send back to Sprint to get it refunded. Sprint store verified screen burn and ordered new phone.
Ok... I like the phone bright. If doing this puts my phone at risk for screen burn... what do I have to do to my settings to stop this from happening again? I do prefer the phone to stay on for more than a couple minutes when I'm using it and of course the brightness.
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notch the brightness down a smidgon and have the screen off set at something shorter, you just have to tap your phone every now and then to keep it on while you're actively using it and when you're not it will turn off quicker. And like the guy said, don't leave the freakin thing on all night like that. SMH
To be honest, I'm surprised Sprint even entertained the idea of looking at your phone if it wasn't currently activated. Unless it just wasn't currently activated for some type of service issue. Unless you meant insurance (TEP) when you said service plan. Which, in that case, would be BS imo.
I would have thought you would have had to deal with Samsung directly.
Well, I've had my GS3 since July and I'm experiencing the exact same issue with image burn-in. This is going to be a widespread problem as more people realize they have their home screen icons permanently ghosted into their screen... especially against a white background.
If you google the GS3 burn-in, you will already find that Samsung in Korea first denied a problem, but then backed off and is now replacing the screens.
Unfortunately, my screen does not turn off while it's charging, and even if I manually turn it off, it will turn back on and stay on once it hits 100%. I'm sure other people are aware of that bug once the notification of full charge pops up. Google "GS3 turns on after charge", or something similar, and there are a slew of folks complaining about their phones lighting up their bedrooms in the middle of the night. This happens to my phone every night and I'm sure it's the reason I have the burn-in.
My next steps are similar to the OP. I have sprint and will be marching down to a full service center store to get a replacement ordered.
I don't even know how Samsung would replace just the screen... wouldn't that comprimise the whole sealed unit and allow for dust to get between the outside glass and the actual AMOLED?!? Who knows, but I'm going through Sprint first.
This is extremely disappointing.
Burn In "Fix"
Can't allready burned in screens be alleviated with simple full screen images of RBG full screen? THis idea doesn't actually "fix" dying pixels and whatnot, but its a quick and dirty fix for some burn in.
Play store link if you wanna try it:
http://full.sc/Qsjg5H
Of course, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- If you must have a theme, use low intensity colors (the bright blue battery in a status bar is kind of burn in candy)
- As mentioned before, lower your brightness levels
- Also as mentioned before, turn off your screen when you aren't looking at it, and set your screen timeout to the shortest time bearable.
-- One thing that can help with a short screen timeout, is to set your screen to not lock immediately on timeout (have it wait a tick to actually lock after going black), that way you can easily get your screen back on with the application you were using without having to swipe or pin or faceunlock.
Ta,
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My mother in law has a TF300 that has been really glitchy, so much so that it was basically unusable (the 4.2 update seems to have made it better, but still not perfect).
Her biggest issue has been sporadic touchscreen non-responsiveness. She thinks that this might be worse when connected to the internet (some app working in the background/updating?). Today she also had it where she couldn't use the screen while connected to the keyboard, but when she disconnected the keyboard it started working again, but that may have been a fluke.
In addition, there are times when it will act as if you've pressed an on screen button, even though your hand was nowhere near said button (almost like a ghosting effect on a keyboard, when the computer is running slow)
I've got the tablet with me for a few hours and I'd like to help her get it to the point where it's working normal again. Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.
Almost as soon as I mentioned the on screen buttons, it started acting up.
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Did it just start or has it been doing it since day 1? Go to settings, then Backup & Reset under Language & Input and do a Factory data reset.
That's the fist step in finding the problem. Bad side she will loose all saved data so save it to a pc.
4.2.1 update rolling out
hmm is that a galaxy player 5.0
I can't remember how long it's been giving her issues, but it has been a while. Multiple factory resets haven't fixed it. In the time I've been tinkering with it I've disabled some of the bloatware and turned off Auto Updates from the Play Store, so we'll see if those help in any way.
I've also noticed that the notification bar keeps getting stuck (either up or down). It looks like rotating it helps fix that, but still that's less than ideal...
Ah, the joys of being tech support :silly:
I've got it hooked up to my laptop in an attempt to use LogCat to help debug, but I'm not sure if I'm seeing anything consistent enough to label it as the cause of her troubles. Still, a resource available if anyone knows what I should be looking for there.
R3Z4545 said:
hmm is that a galaxy player 5.0
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Yes, yes it is
If it's under warranty then send it back. Hopefully she hasn't had it over a year.
If it were mine it would've already been in the mail. Since its not unlocked and factory reset aren't working there's not much else that can be done without voiding the warranty.
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is there a screen protector on it?
My TF300 always the same thing whenever there was background IO, even with Android 4.1.
Turning off the useless syncing and auto Play Store updates do help.
Also check to see if the storage has been filled. IO performance is also decreased by having a relatively filled flash.
So having disabled the Auto Updates from Google Play seems to have made a world of difference. I'm surprised background IO took so much out of the tablet, since it's running on a quad core, but oh well. Thanks for the suggestions everyone!