I've suddenly incurred a strange screen problem. I was updating my phone to the latest CM10.1 nightly (4/22), and after the phone installed it, it rebooted, as it should. During the reboot, the initial Samsung Galaxy SIII logo showed on the screen, and then the screen went black. I thought it was strange that I didn't see the cyanogenmod boot animation, so I waited a minute. The notification LED lit up and my phone chimed with the usual ringtone I hear at bootup, and the hardware keys were lit up on either side of the home button, but the screen did not light up. I am stuck with the phone in this condition. The phone is actually on, and if I click the power button to turn on the screen I can place my thumb where the lock screen is and feel it vibrate as I unlock the phone, but I cannot see anything on the screen. The screen remains completely black. Removing the battery and all other considered options have been unhelpful.
Any thoughts on this guys? I'd really appreciate some help or solutions to attempt. Is this the Galaxy S3 "sudden death" syndrome?
Have you tried flashing back to an earlier backup? It could simply be a bad download. If your backup does the same thing then there's a bigger problem here.
Do you see anything immediately after a reboot, before it boots into android? If yes, the problem is in android or the ROM you flashed. If no, I'm afraid your backlight may have died. That happened to me AND my sister's s3.
Also, take it into a pitch black room and see if you can see the faintest of backlight on your phone. When my backlight went, I could see everything in a pitch black room, like it was on -20 brightness.
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I had that exact same problem. Although mine was because the version of CM 10.1 wasn't compatible with the custom kernel I was using, do you think that has anything to do with it?
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Yesterday, I was watching netflix, when out of the blue my xoom screen went really dark. At first I thought it froze up/randomly shut off, so I did the power+up vol reset, and it rebooted, but the Motorola logo was so dark I could hardly see it. It would still boot up just fine, but everything was so faded that I had to hover right over the screen and squint in order to see it. I was able to navigate around a little bit, till the screen went totally blank(on, but black).
I tried playing with it just a couple minutes ago but it wont turn on, which hopefully means the battery finally died so I can recharge it to see if that makes any difference(I dont think it will, but crossing my fingers anyways).
Now..I'm THINKING this is a hardware issue because even in recovery, the screen was still super super faded. I've restarted it since the screen went totally blank, and Its got nothing now. My rom I'm using was a Team EOS nightly, I think from some time last month, and I have a Canadian market wifi xoom.
P.S. The power button will still turn the screen on and off..and after the screen went black It still made the 14% battery left noise.
Any suggestions at all!? As appealing as the Nexus 7 is..I like my xoom..and I dont feel like spending money on another tablet when i've only had this one since last April.
TL;DR My xoom screen went so dark the colors were pretty much non existent, and the screen was still super faded in recovery/during the boot sequence. Now it only responds to the power button some of the time, and will reset(I'm assuming)when I hold UP VOL+Power. I'm using an older EOS Nightly, and This happened out of the blue with only a slight over clock.
Screen being super dark is usually the back light. Sorry I can't help.
Unfortunately sounds like your LCD back light is broken. So what you're going to have to do is replace the whole LCD screen on the XOOM which can cost quite a bit. Good luck!
Shameless selfbump, but interesting thing is the backlight comes on, just nothing shows up. Did the xoom just manage to brick itself in the middle of a movie on netflix? Also, If I plug the xoom into my computer, the prompt pops up almost immediately showing all the stuff that is ON the xoom. Thoughts?
hello GS3'ers my brother has some gs3 problems
his gs3's back light appears to have died out. he can still use the phone just can't see what is going on, the sounds still work and everything. has anyone come across this before? i told him to hold a flashlight to the screen so he's able to backup his pictures and what not but the screen is really black. which is his main concern right now, because he wants save his things and then return the phone if he has to.
any help is much appreciated, thanks!
My understanding of the GS3 is that since it is an AMOLED screen, it does not have a backlight. Each individual pixel emits light. My guess would be an app is causing the problem, possibly one that alters screen brightness. I would start by pulling the battery and restart the phone. If you see a boot animation, your screen's not dead.
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that makes sense because the flashlight thing didn't work. he restarts his phone and even the boot logo is happening during a pitch black screen but the sound could be heard. it's gotta be something more serious
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So my phone has been fine until yesterday. Everything seems to be working except the screen won't show anything. I can feel the vibration from unlocking as if it was showing and I can still hear sounds and the buttons at the bottom and the keyboard all light up but nothing shows on the screen. If I take the battery out and put it back in most of the time it fixes the issue. Sometimes it doesn't even show the splash screen though. Its kind of hit or miss.
I replaced the ROM I had on and put the original battery back in (I have an extended battery) to make sure it was neither of those issues. My guess is something is going out on it. Anyone else have this happen/have a fix?
erebus860 said:
So my phone has been fine until yesterday. Everything seems to be working except the screen won't show anything. I can feel the vibration from unlocking as if it was showing and I can still hear sounds and the buttons at the bottom and the keyboard all light up but nothing shows on the screen. If I take the battery out and put it back in most of the time it fixes the issue. Sometimes it doesn't even show the splash screen though. Its kind of hit or miss.
I replaced the ROM I had on and put the original battery back in (I have an extended battery) to make sure it was neither of those issues. My guess is something is going out on it. Anyone else have this happen/have a fix?
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Also forgot to mention this doesn't happen if I boot into recovery.
Are you using a custom ROM? If it doesn't happen on recovery then sounds like a kernel issue to me... Since the only difference between recovery and normal mode is the kernel they're using is different.
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Are you using a custom ROM? If it doesn't happen on recovery then sounds like a kernel issue to me... Since the only difference between recovery and normal mode is the kernel they're using is different.
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I am, yeah. I ended up going into recovery and formatting everything, it was still acting up for a bit after that but then started working fine. My guess is I had some sort of corruption. Thanks
Same thing was happening to me when I went ham on my kernel tweaking the hell out of it :silly:
Well I mostly fixed it. Still happens randomly when sliding out. If I slowly slide in or out again that fixes it though. Still, kinda of a weird problem.
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So I was surfing some forums earlier this morning when my, 3 day old, Galaxy Note 10.1 screen went dark. Not a full black like when the screen is off, though I thought it was at first. But it wasn't completely off which I found out when I hit the power button to turn the screen back on. It turned it off. Anyways, when I turned it back on I was notified that the Wifi also went out. Maybe it had something to do with that?
I took it as a sign to go to sleep since I was staying up way too late playing with my new tablet. So I haven't messed with it since. I'll come back to post more in this thread if it happens again - especially if no one else seems to know what the problem is.
Anyone have any thoughts?
My screens does that too.. No big deal to me as long as its working..
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txtmikhail said:
My screens does that too.. No big deal to me as long as its working..
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And it's not like a screen dimming when the backlight turns off, seconds before the screen actually does turn off. Same experience for you?
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And it's not like a screen dimming when the backlight turns off, seconds before the screen actually does turn off. Same experience for you?
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It just goes blank.. A grey tint screen but not off.. I just hit the power button twice and I'm good.. It happens to me every few days.. I'm use to it now.. I was scared the first few times it happen..lol
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It just goes blank.. A grey tint screen but not off.. I just hit the power button twice and I'm good.. It happens to me every few days.. I'm use to it now.. I was scared the first few times it happen..lol
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Only happens in the stock browser for me. Maybe once a day.
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Any one find a fix for this? It happens a few times a day for me. Hitting the power button twice gets me back but usually happens in the middle of taking notes in class so is annoying to take an extra few seconds to get it back up. Maybe a kernel thing?? I've tried resetting a few times with no luck
It's the sleep-of-death, which happens most often after an Android update. I had issues with it occurring regularly after updating to JB. I traced my problem down to an app that worked well under ICS but caused JB to crash. Once I removed the app, I stopped having issues (I'm on stock 4.1.2). If you're on a custom rom, check the forums to see if others are having the issue on that rom. Also, do Internet searches on the apps that you use most frequently to see if there are reports of any of them causing JB to crash. Good luck, it just takes detective work on your part so be patient.
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I have had my Galaxy Note 10.1 since xmas. Lately it randomly goes blank. It happens during an application or game. I can click the on/off button to put it to sleep then wake it the regular way...
I have noticed it with games mostly, 250+Solitaire and Sudoku Premium. The screen goes blank, the backlight stays on and have to put to sleep to get screen back...
Mine does the same thing except I usually can't wake it back up. The screen stays black and I have to hold the power button down until it restarts.It's happened with the stock browser and Google play store while I was browsing.
It happens to me too (ics and jb) sometimes, does't matter what app is runing, but only if I'm using stylus. I don't mind it, just have to double press power button.
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I still have it happen sometimes too. Never found a solution and I'm quite certain it even started happening before I had any extra apps installed.
It happens to me too (ics and jb) sometimes, does't matter what app is runing, but only if I'm using stylus. I don't mind it, just have to double press power button.
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I feel like you might be on to something with the stylus being out because I'm quite certain it only happens to me when I have mine out too. Something to keep an eye on.
Hey guys, i'll try to explain the situation as best i can below, hopefully someone can work out what is wrong.
My phone is about 16 months old. About 2 months ago i dropped it twice within the space of a couple weeks. There were a few cracks along the screen, however it wasn't very noticeable and i wasn't going to bother having it fixed. The problem started a couple of weeks ago when i went to grab it out of my pocket, however i found out the screen was black and it wouldn't turn on. I don't really know how to describe it but it was acting very strange...
- The screen would have white/gray bars all over it then turn off, then it would do the same with very thin vertical lines that were white/gray/other colours...
- When i get the screen on, it generally turns off again within 30 seconds, however it can stay on for a few minutes.
- If the screen is on and i press the lock button, it almost certainly won't come back on.
- Restarting the phone or holding the power and volume button nearly always gets the screen to come back on. It often then restarts but turns off again shortly after.
- The phone is otherwise still working when the screen goes off; the notification light stays on and i hear messages etc coming through
- The backlight often stays lit, revealing a gray screen opposed from total black. Sometimes it does not stay lit however.
- When the screen came on it was often unresponsive to touch
I had the screen replaced yesterday by a phone repair shop and the phone is still not right. I have factory reset the phone and also wiped the partition cache. Other than that it is still not working. IT seems to be working better... The screen always seems responsive to touch when it is on, and it doesn't seem to be turning off as often. It generally starts up and works fine when i start up by holding the power button and down volume button together... However even still it sometimes just flashes up with a few thick white/gray and black lines on the screen..
Does anyone know what can be causing this and how i can resolve it? If you need any more information please let me know and i will try provide it. I could try get some pictures of what the screen is doing when i finish work. Thanks guys, i appreciate any input.
EDIT: I managed to get a pic of what i mean by the thin vertical lines all over the screen. This just appeared when i tried to restart the phone after it the screen had once again stopped working. The imgur link is gIFMGD6
Anyone have any ideas?
Hey, did you ever figure this problem out? My phone just started doing the same thing. Can't find much info about it.
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Hey, did you ever figure this problem out? My phone just started doing the same thing. Can't find much info about it.
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Yeah, i had the screen fixed hoping it would fix it, however that didn't work. Turns out it was the motherboard, don't know what was wrong with it in particular other than it was simply going faulty. Had someone replace the motherboard on it for $50 and have had zero problems since! Hope that helps you.
Thanks for the response. I tried replacing the screen too with no luck. Unfortunately the same place that replaced the screen said it would cost $400 to replace the motherboard!!! The phone cost less than that so it looks like I'm gonna buy a new one.
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Yeah, i had the screen fixed hoping it would fix it, however that didn't work. Turns out it was the motherboard, don't know what was wrong with it in particular other than it was simply going faulty. Had someone replace the motherboard on it for $50 and have had zero problems since! Hope that helps you.
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