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Screen flickering issue

Hey everybody...
I just got a new note & everything is excellent except that I've been noticing some weird flickering in the screen... Its not even flickering, its more like it goes dark for milliseconds & its not that frequent. Should i be conserned or its a software issue... does anyone have such an issue?
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Have you got auto brightness enabled? If so try manually setting the brightness, also check your screen timeout in setting /display set it to a 1min not 15secs
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Auto brightness is off. The same issue is happenning with my galaxy s3.
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Go into Developer Options in Settings and set animations to .5x.
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Tried that. Did not resolve the issue... do you experience such issue with your device?
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Take it back. It may be a defect.
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I dont think it is. Because on the home screen & some apps like youtube the issue is nonexistent, Strange
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I have not seen this issue yet. Had mine since launch.
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After some testing I found out that the screen issue is related to some apps only such as chrome & xda's app. Most other apps work just fine such as s note, photoshop, youtube, all games & the home screen shows no flickeri g whatsoever.
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I have seen this, I was worried but it is very difficult to return my unit as it is a grey import.
I totally didn't notice that it went away after changing screen timeout to 1 minute. Battery life is good enough to easily cope with this.
Setting back to 15 seconds to see if it re-occurs.
fyi, I leave brightness auto.
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I can confirm that the problem is solved. The whole issue is that some apps are conflicting with the hover function for the s pen. Once you disable that function in settings all becomes completly normal without any issues.
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Same problem
arjag said:
I have seen this, I was worried but it is very difficult to return my unit as it is a grey import.
I totally didn't notice that it went away after changing screen timeout to 1 minute. Battery life is good enough to easily cope with this.
Setting back to 15 seconds to see if it re-occurs.
fyi, I leave brightness auto.
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I have the similar issue on my Note 10.1 - the browser is the biggest 'flasher' and it seems random. I called Samsung support - They had me reset to factory and the issue went away, but eventually came back. I don't want to have to keep resetting to factory as that is painful for me to reconfig everything and I tend to believe that if I restore to ClockWorkMod backup, the issue will still be there.

Hi.
l had the same problem earlier. Simply deactivate the hovering S - Pen icon, and voila!
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Onliner09 said:
Hi.
l had the same problem earlier. Simply deactivate the hovering S - Pen icon, and voila!
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Same problem here turning off the pen hover will report back if it works cheers

More in depth screen smearing video + temporary fix

I just made a more in depth video of the issue for people to pass around
Or send to samsung
Warning I wouldn't watch this on your galaxy S4 as it looks horrible the screen does not process the blacks properly
I use different brightness and different apps to show this issue then apply the
Temporary fix
http://youtu.be/DOQ91ujRFxU
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MopHeadGeek said:
I just made a more in depth video of the issue for people to pass around
Or send to samsung
Warning I wouldn't watch this on your galaxy S4 as it looks horrible the screen does not process the blacks properly
I use different brightness and different apps to show this issue then apply the
Temporary fix
http://youtu.be/DOQ91ujRFxU
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Share it in Facebook, Twitter, GSMArena, SamMobile ....so that samsung could know his fault and prepare a fix ASAP
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[DISCUSSION] The Black stripes Bug!

So yeah guys this is a Discussion about a problem which may have others noticed too!
In this thread I'll would like to search for a solution of that problem. If anyone of you have the same problem and found or still search for a solution pls say it in this Thread and we can work togehter for a solution!
The bug itself:
Yeah the bug is very simple to explain.
At the left and top of your screen you have almost 2mm thick black stripes (see screenshot ).
You have these stripes also in booting, recovery and download mode.
Reflashing wipe data/cache/dalvik is not solution.
I have this problem since almost 3 month I would guess and I tried a lot to get them away.
So now I hope you know what I mean with the Black stripes bug.
If you have a question just ask.
Shadowcareful
Edit. The first Picture show the Blackstripes at the left side the second at the corner from top and left side and the last shows the difference from the left side and how it should be normal at the bottom.

Yeah I have had this bug ever since I put on my first stock-based ROM like 6 months ago. At first it was really annoying, but over time you do get used to it. I would prefer it to be fixed though. I only have the black bar at the right side of my screen as well
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Maybe i can try to change resolution in kernel? But i will not test it on my phone
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Well I would be happy to test it if you do
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Someone on stock can test mb4 kernel and see if there is issue ?
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It could be a problem of mb4 because I flashed my Gt-i8160P to an normal Ace 2 and that with mb4 and since that I have that issue

Actually it could be, I flashed mb4 after having gb for ages, and it did have the black bar from then
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Flash mb4 now and see if there is black stripe... Report me that.. I think i know solution
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Well I have it now, I don't believe I can get it again (unless it would be on a different side). And plus I don't have access to a PC till tomorrow
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Dude , problem might be resolved with mb4 kernel .. If not, tell me i will know what to try..
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Okay, I'll try tomorrow afternoon and update you
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Okay, to update you:
I just flashed it, and i have a black stripe at the top now as well as the right. It is this stock firmware that is mostly causing it. The top line is really going to bug me now, so if you are able to fix this then great

I will see what i can do
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Any progress Rox have you found sth to fix it ?
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I have ace 2 with gb and when i compare there is same stripe on the left and top like on jb screen... So it is hardware problem...
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When I bought the Phone I hadn't these stripes only since installing mb4 and making my P version into a Non-P
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no idea, then i dont have that stripes, i have just maybe 0.5 mm on the left and right ( no 2 mm , mine is practicaly unnoticable ) but right side is fully okay ..

thats weird
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In same games it's a serious problem; for example in "cut the rope" when finding the hidding drawings

What I think about this bug:
What I think about this bug:
I think it can be a software bug as a hardware bug.
I say software bug because someone says it appeared after some upgrade, while someone says he has not that bug (upgrade or not).
I say hardware bug beacuse if I look at screen, powered off, under sunlight I can note the screen is not black in the same way everywhere: there are two lateral black stripe, lighter than the rest of the black screen, which are the same a lot of people note as the "black stripes" when screen is powered on. Is there someone else who notes this? Maybe, for some samsung's production error, some screens are not real "480 x 800" screens, but "something less than 480" x 800 screens.
Am I totally mad?

[Q]Light Flow

Hello guys ,
As youmay understand ,I'm new on Nexus devices.I wanted to use the Notification Light to inform me if there's something new or not.
I saw the Light Manager App which works perfectly . But the Light Flow (lite~premium) doesn't work .I just can't go with it , it looks promising but it doesn't work ,as it doesn't inform me for a notification ,nor if I press the test button ,it Simply doesn't work .
It looks great but it seems that I can't do it .Please someone out there help me or if you could give me your backup it'd be great thanks anyway
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Do you have pulsing notifications on?
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dicecuber said:
Do you have pulsing notifications on?
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Sorry but ...Where is it? :what:
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blinqipa said:
Hello guys ,
As youmay understand ,I'm new on Nexus devices.I wanted to use the Notification Light to inform me if there's something new or not.
I saw the Light Manager App which works perfectly . But the Light Flow (lite~premium) doesn't work .I just can't go with it , it looks promising but it doesn't work ,as it doesn't inform me for a notification ,nor if I press the test button ,it Simply doesn't work .
It looks great but it seems that I can't do it .Please someone out there help me or if you could give me your backup it'd be great thanks anyway
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If LightManager works perfectly then what are you looking for in Light Flow? I'm using LightManager to control what color the notification light is for each different type of notification. If that's all you want to do then stick with what works.

blinqipa said:
Sorry but ...Where is it? :what:
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Settings > display > pulsing notification lights
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dicecuber said:
Settings > display > pulsing notification lights
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It is turned on
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marleyfan61 said:
If LightManager works perfectly then what are you looking for in Light Flow? I'm using LightManager to control what color the notification light is for each different type of notification. If that's all you want to do then stick with what works.
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Because Light Flow looks better and it has many more features ,one of them was Mixing the colours Red,Blue,Green (forgive me if I made a mistake on these colors)
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Light Flow works for me but it has bugs. View the help website in the app and go to Nexus 5 page.
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Light Flow works for the most part for me.
Only sometimes after SMS gets dismissed, notification seems to keep blinking, though may be a GO SMS thing, not reproduced it consistently enough yet.
I use this to set it up http://www.folioflow.com/ff/page/website/lightflow/pageId/2349

Lightflow worked perfectly on my Nexus 4 but on my 5 it's a little buggy. With the last update a couple days ago it's running much better though. I know the dev is working hard on getting all the bugs worked out and he's getting close. I'm using the paid version and I would recommend it because the developer is very responsive on a few of these threads and is actively working on making it better.
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[Discussion] Galaxy S4 another screen problem

Hello
I noticed that the colors in the notification bar are a little bit different than the rest of the screen, I notice that after a while since I updated to the official KitKat.
I don't know if this a Manufacturer defect or its not
The problem can be seen more clearly in gray colors.
I hope you check if this problem is on your device or not
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I can't understand what you mean. Maybe a photo of your problem would be useful.

iPixelsBoy said:
Hello
I noticed that the colors in the notification bar are a little bit different than the rest of the screen, I notice that after a while since I updated to the official KitKat.
I don't know if this a Manufacturer defect or its not
The problem can be seen more clearly in gray colors.
I hope you check if this problem is on your device or not
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amoled burn in
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When in chrome in the grey colour of open new tab, I can see vertical black lines :S or in any grey background.
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xtrustkillx said:
amoled burn in
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mezo91 said:
When in chrome in the grey colour of open new tab, I can see vertical black lines :S or in any grey background.
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So it's normal?
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iPixelsBoy said:
So it's normal?
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And when you scroll down right or left in black you find some purple smudges.
Some say it is normal bcuz samsung used some low quality equipment. And most of people have this.
Where is ur flipboard icon. Concentrate on it while u scroll between pages. You will find a black trace behind it.
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mezo91 said:
And when you scroll down right or left in black you find some purple smudges.
Some say it is normal bcuz samsung used some low quality equipment. And most of people have this.
Where is ur flipboard icon. Concentrate on it while u scroll between pages. You will find a black trace behind it.
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Yeah I noticed the back trace behind flipboard app
I'm really disappointed by Samsung
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iPixelsBoy said:
Yeah I noticed the back trace behind flipboard app
I'm really disappointed by Samsung
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Very low quality for a high end device of 2013.
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i would not say low quality.. rather high end tech but not quite ready for mass production. apart from ****ing burn in.. i cant imagine the joy of the owner if that happens on 6000€ oled tv
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take screenshot
copy it to your computer
compare between your screen and your truly phone screen
and write here back

This is just an issue of uneven aging of the individual LED's. Statusbar stays black most of the time so the pixels do not age as fast as other pixels on the screen.
Within time this makes statusbar appear more bright than the rest of the screen.
My 4 year old and still kicking strong Galaxy S1 (I9000) has this noticeable on any evenly colored image.
Now that I know of this, I use Tinted statusbar mod (requires Xposed) to keep statusbar from being black all the time. This means the LED's in statusbar will also age faster = more so with the rest of the screen.