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[Q] screen issue....maybe?

I got my charge as a replacement for my fascinate like many others. befor i do anything i wanted to give the phone a few days on stock to make sure everything works fine. So far the only thing i noticed was sometimes it lags when i hit the power button to turn the screen on. Sometimes it flashes a static filled screen for a split sec before home screen loads. also some times it takes a sec for my screen to come back on after i lower the phone from my face so i can hang up. Is this just a little minor known issue others are having or is there something wrong with my phone possibly? Phone is all stock, fully bloated and the only apps ive installed are xbox live stats and google googles (coolest app ever). I doesnt do it all the time but it happens frequently enough to notice it. I can normally recreate it if i hit power button to turn screen off and let it sit a few mins then hit the button again to turn it back on.

When running completely stock, I experienced the same 2-3 second delay. Now that I am on EE4 with a custom kernel, the delay is closer to 1 second.

NotATreoFan said:
When running completely stock, I experienced the same 2-3 second delay. Now that I am on EE4 with a custom kernel, the delay is closer to 1 second.
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did you ever see black/white lines or static? I only ask because if its a common thing that most have exp then its really no big deal. ill root and flash to help fix the lag. But if its not then i would like to get it fix asap. Other then that i havent seen any other issues yet.

I see the lines and"static" on mine when the screen comes on. Not every time though.
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Undzis said:
did you ever see black/white lines or static? I only ask because if its a common thing that most have exp then its really no big deal. ill root and flash to help fix the lag. But if its not then i would like to get it fix asap. Other then that i havent seen any other issues yet.
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I have seen it on occasion. It's much less noticable on a custom kernel and ROM.

Undzis said:
did you ever see black/white lines or static? I only ask because if its a common thing that most have exp then its really no big deal. ill root and flash to help fix the lag. But if its not then i would like to get it fix asap. Other then that i havent seen any other issues yet.
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I have that on mine too.
(Out of the box EE4 stock)

Thanks for posting everybody. It seams like its a common issue then. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't just mine or that i needed to return it due to some kinda of defect. Nice to know a custom kernel will fix it for the most part. Thanks again guys. This phone is so much nicer then the fascinate

I set a lock pattern on my phone, and I haven't seen the screen flicker once since. I'll switch back to the puzzle lock and see if it comes back....standby.
*update* switched back and still no flicker. Maybe that's the ticket.
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I have it on two replacement phones I got through amazon . White lines for a split second . I got it replaced through verizon because both of the others had a dead glowing red pixel after about a week. The one I got from verizon works great I would get it replaced asap before u get the glowing red dot of doom
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Screen Color Problems on Unlock (Really Weird)

I'm having a very strange problem with my Charge. It seems like pretty much every other time I unlock my phone, a color from the RGB spectrum is missing. Which in turn causes the screen to be a weird shade of blue, green or red. I can lock and unlock the phone again and it will be totally normal, but as I stated above, it seems like it's happening quite a lot more often here recently, and I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem? I know I'm going to call Verizon tonight or tomorrow and see about getting a replacement because it's definitely not a software issue that I can see.

I had that happen once, and only once. However, it hasn't happened since then, so I'm pretty sure it was software related. Have you done a hard reset yet? If not, you need to do that to rule out a software issue. You need to try it for a bit in that clean state before loading 3rd party software to confirm.

I have the same problem, which just started this morning. When I woke up and looked at my phone, as it unlocked, sometimes it had a bluish or greenish tint. This would appear intermittently as I unlocked my phone.
I searched the internet, and found other instances of this happening as well.
I restarted my phone, and the problem hasn't returned since. Something to keep an eye on, but I'm hoping it's not hardware related, but rather software related (and can be fixed with a reboot).
Mko.

I had that happen a couple times. I have not seen it in a long time but it is software related. I could get it to do it a whole lot one day and after a reboot it never happened again.

I've never had this happen to me but I heard the Fascinate had a problem with the screen since amoled was still being developed, you can just attempt what these others have tried(factory reset, reboot, etc)
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Homestar1217 said:
I'm having a very strange problem with my Charge. It seems like pretty much every other time I unlock my phone, a color from the RGB spectrum is missing. Which in turn causes the screen to be a weird shade of blue, green or red. I can lock and unlock the phone again and it will be totally normal, but as I stated above, it seems like it's happening quite a lot more often here recently, and I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem? I know I'm going to call Verizon tonight or tomorrow and see about getting a replacement because it's definitely not a software issue that I can see.
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For me when I unlock the phone it does a black screen with lines for a second,pretty much 5 out of 10 times I unlock my phone. I've already got a replacement charge,so my old one and the new one do it. I'm sending my phone to Samung because Verizon has sent me two charges with scatches on the screen, one also has a dead pixel.

Only had the weird color thing happen once upon unlocking several weeks ago. Locked and unlocked it again and it was normal again. Haven't had it happen again.
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I had this happen to me pretty consistently when. I tried running GummyCharged GBE. Rebooting didn't work for me, so I went back to GummyCharged FE, and that's what solved the problem for me, but it's possible that reflashing GBE may have done the trick too. I never tried that because I thought the issue was related to the ROM.
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Well I called Verizon, and while they didn't have it listed as a known issue, I was told to reboot because it was more than likely a software issue. I did just that and haven't had this happen since.
Having said that, I noticed something else, the screen was at a different brightness nearly every time I unlocked it and it wasn't a funny color. Either full on 100% or dim as could be, never anywhere in between. I also stumbled upon an article from a lesser known tech site that suggested that the auto-brightness function was indeed the culprit. Seems to make perfect sense given what I saw. I've had this happen once in a blue moon before the other day, and as others stated after a lock/unlock all was well, but this was a different experience altogether. Hopefully this software problem can be fixed with an update (GB maybe? Probably right as they release Ice Cream Sandwich...).
As a side note my screen also does the gray lines once in a while, just 2 or 3 down the whole length of the screen for a split second before an unlock. Seems like it's not an issue so far.

I've had a completely black screen--my lockscreen will flash and just go black, but sliding where the normal unlock would be turns on the display to Home. Kind of odd, and I've only seen it twice.
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[Q] screen disaster - random tinting, solarization, turns upside down

sooo, yeah. my wife has the t959v. the screen cracked months ago, replaced it with one from ebay, works fine. a few weeks ago, it was involved in an accident and needed yet another screen replacement; ergo, back to ebay i go. installed the new screen yesterday, turn it on, all is well. for a bit.
now, the phone isn't currently, nor has it ever been rooted; pure stock tmo us 2.3.6. during boot, the splash screens and boot animation are gorgeous and perfect in appearance. the recovery menu is exactly as expected. android boots as you'd want it to, and then the display will do one of the following:
-work properly (rare)
-automatically turn off, capacitive buttons still lit, touchscreen unresponsive - turning it "off" darkens the cap buttons, turning it back on flashes the screen on for a half-second, then off, with cap buttons still lit (common)
-graphical corruption ("solarized" colors, completely wrong colors, pixel vomit in essence) (fairly common)
-screen tinting, blue most often, followed by pale yellow, then greenish, then red (almost constant)
-screen inversion - the display will show as rotated 180 degrees; grabbing a framecap in ddms shows it right way up. touches are also inverse; you have to touch where the onscreen element would be if it were displayed properly instead of where the element is; e.g. a button on lower-left will display in the upper right, upsidedown, but the screen registers the button when you touch the lower-left portion of the screen. (quasi common, equally infuriating and hilarious)
none of these problems will show up in a screenshot at all.
i can reliably reproduce any of the above by simply adjusting the screen brightness. this will, quite literally, cycle through every possible defective display mode randomly for a split-second before moving on to a different one as long as you move the brightness slider.
MOST of these issues are transient and are either fixed (temporarily) or replaced with a different listed issue if you lock/unlock the display. it feels like a hardware issue what with the solarizing and color horrors, but is acting like a software issue, considering that recovery and boot are perfect and have never displayed any of these issues. i tried gently flexing and stressing the case in areas that might be a weak connection point, but can't get it to bug out that way.
in no way am i suggesting that i didn't screw something royally in the reconstruction stage, but i tore down and rebuilt that phone 4 times with identical results, so i can guarantee it's not some loose ribbon connector or zif socket.
i beg of you, great minds of xda, what the balls did i muck up this time? any hope for a fix? are there different panels, drivers, something?
thanks in advance

OK, if your screenshots appear normal, then your phone appears to be working correctly!
or at least it thinks it is we can conclude that it isn't the rom, kernel, or anything that you can blame the phone for going screwy.
Try buying another screen??
The ribbon connector might be broken?

yeah, these were what i figured what my options were. it just seems odd that the boot process and recovery menus have error-free displays while only the full android os doesnt. oh well, i'll probably just have to make a stink about it on ebay or something.
thanks for reading

You might try a fresh flash before getting a new screen to see if it is indeed a hardware issue. If you want to try that follow the second link in my signature. You will not need to flash bootloaders since you are currently on KJ6.

lumin30 said:
You might try a fresh flash before getting a new screen to see if it is indeed a hardware issue. If you want to try that follow the second link in my signature. You will not need to flash bootloaders since you are currently on KJ6.
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hell, warranty's void at this point anyway, right? may as well thanks much!

welp, all went well, screen was perfect through the whole heimdall/recovery process, but the problems still exist in the os c'est la vie. at least my wife's phone is finally rooted, i suppose. thanks anyway!

Have you tried opening it back up and reconnecting?

yup, 4 times, but i guess one more wont hurt
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it definitely seems to be related (if not related, exacerbated by) changes to screen brightness. turning off autobrightness has helped minimize the issue, but it still presents itself semi-often during screen-off/on events. obviously nothing useful in logcat.

zero01101 said:
it definitely seems to be related (if not related, exacerbated by) changes to screen brightness. turning off autobrightness has helped minimize the issue, but it still presents itself semi-often during screen-off/on events. obviously nothing useful in logcat.
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That's interesting and could very well be a hardware problem with the screen. You wouldn't see that in recovery as the OS isn't loaded to mess with the brightness in that mode.
Does it do it on-demand if you mess with the brightness slider?

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Does it do it on-demand if you mess with the brightness slider?
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you better believe it does. rapid fire cycles through every color until it can't take it anymore and turns off. if i take/refresh a screenshot through ddms and poke blindly at the screen at that point, it'll still take input which is a curious, difficult game to say the least.

zero01101 said:
you better believe it does. rapid fire cycles through every color until it can't take it anymore and turns off. if i take/refresh a screenshot through ddms and poke blindly at the screen at that point, it'll still take input which is a curious, difficult game to say the least.
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It's that Pink Floyd screen. You're supposed to drop acid & watch the wall when that's going on. LOL j/j
Given that you're on a fresh ROM & the problem persists, I'm leaning toward a hardware issue man. Sorry.

stephen_w said:
It's that Pink Floyd screen. You're supposed to drop acid & watch the wall when that's going on. LOL j/j
Given that you're on a fresh ROM & the problem persists, I'm leaning toward a hardware issue man. Sorry.
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as fun as that sounds, unfortunately i bet i'll end up just getting my wife a used phone on ebay or somewhere similar and using this one as a development monkey. i was assuming that it wasn't something i could fix but hoping otherwise... yeah, that worked out

I just started having this problem. It wasn't too bad at first, just the color changes, but then it started not showing a screen at all. Changed to three different roms, even back to the stock non-rooted KJ6 and gave up. Keeping it on a steady brightness is the only way to minimize the color changing. I thought your thread had a solution but...
I may try opening it up and fixing the ribbon. But otherwise I'll keep using it as long as I can tolerate it until an S3 or a new Nexus.

kristoper said:
I just started having this problem. It wasn't too bad at first, just the color changes, but then it started not showing a screen at all. Changed to three different roms, even back to the stock non-rooted KJ6 and gave up. Keeping it on a steady brightness is the only way to minimize the color changing. I thought your thread had a solution but...
I may try opening it up and fixing the ribbon. But otherwise I'll keep using it as long as I can tolerate it until an S3 or a new Nexus.
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nawp, nothing even close to a solution here i did end up buying my wife a whole new replacement phone and turned the broken one into my api10 development device. for what it's worth, yeah, autobrightness off does help a bit for when the phone is actively displaying content, but after you put it to sleep/screen off and try to turn it back on, it's a crapshoot. for a few horrifying hours, the screen was upsidedown even in recovery/boot animation and would NOT flip back to right-side-up until i ran the battery completely flat.
is no fun, 'tis truth. sorry for your troubles.

Screen randomly gets pixelated, colors are skewed

I have taken screenshots during the occurances, and after, but they look the same after I restart, so that is why I wont post pics.
What happens is, probably 4 times now, is that the screen suddenly changes. The whole screen will look fuzzy, as if the resolution were slightly lowered, and colors will appear to be off. I use the Chrome browser for example, and when it happens the bar on the top turns from the usual grey to almost a peach color. The text is no longer sharp as well. It usually happens while browsing, but once happened while looking at photographs.
A simple reboot fixes the error, but it is inconvenient and strange.
Has anyone else seen this?
Any ideas as to why it is happening?

There is an option to change to negative colours. Maybe you're selecting it by mistake?

This issue is interesting. For the first time today I noticed some blurring. After a restart it corrected. Its certainly worth keeping an eye on. It could be a certain app messing with the tab.
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There is an option to change to negative colours. Maybe you're selecting it by mistake?
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Thanks but no, I'm pretty good with gadgets and I am definitely not accidentally switching to negative, that would turn everything black, and would not make anything blurry or pixelated.
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This issue is interesting. For the first time today I noticed some blurring. After a restart it corrected. Its certainly worth keeping an eye on. It could be a certain app messing with the tab.
Sent from my Galaxy Note 10.1
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It is subtle. The first time I noticed it, I wondered if it had ever happened before and I missed it. It's only obvious when I'm carefully reading text in the browser, but it is definitely there.

I would say return it if it continues. There are bound to be lemons here and there. I haven't noticed this with mine though, but I have blacktie from BB if it does. I'm not even worried if it tumbles or something stops working.

I would return it. It sounds like it could be a hardware issue to me...

Weird screen issues on Shield Tablet K1

Hi!
My screen behave strange from a few days:
- Sometimes the screen slightly flashes, I can see it especially when it's in charge and it has brightness low or very high
- The screen is slightly yellowish. I tried setting it with the nvidia tool to setup colours, but even setting temperature at maximum screen remains yellowish
- I'm experiencing burn-in which is very rare for a ips screen
- Gradient background show bands of different colour gradation.
I tried a wipe and nothing change, so I think I have to send it back. I have this device from 2 months and I never had this issues. I would like to know if someone other had these issues and what do you think it's better do.

Wrong thread, sorry.

Gabrius99 said:
I have this device from 2 months and I never had this issues. I would like to know if someone other had these issues and what do you think it's better do.
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Did you change anything before this happenend? If not, return.

edisso10018 said:
Did you change anything before this happenend? If not, return.
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I didn't changed anything. Suddenly I had those weird issues.
Now I returned back and I have a new one. There are still banding problems but now it's working all correctly.
Very strange how screen panel works so much different on different shield tablet k1
Thanks anyway