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What exactly does screen bleeding effect

I just bought a g2x today. Didn't notice the screen bleed until I read about it. Just wondering what this does or the negative effect it has on my phone.
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Yeah. It makes people complain... Other than that I think it's just cosmetic...
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It just might be that my phone doesn't have screen bleeding as severe as other phones, but if I didn't read about it I probably wouldn't have noticed.

Yea that's what I'm thinking. I didn't hear about a single problem with the phone until I got it lol. Idk how bad mine is in relation to others but I don't want to exchange it and get one that's worse
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And is this something that can get progressively worse?
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Mine hasn't got any worse. I didn't notice til I read it on xda. I've had mine since release date and I love mine.
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No it does not affect usability at all. Some have posited that when Gingerbread gets released it will be more noticable on its dark notification bar. Some have also complained that their screen bleed has progressed to "bars" but I've only seen that a few times. I think virtually everyone will tell you it's a non issue.
That said, IMO, it is the lack of a real response that is indicative of the biggest issue of all.That being the lack of real support. People are getting them replaced, but that's it. I just want a phone that works. I have had a lot of issues. Getting a new one every two weeks is no fun. I'm in limbo now. I'm sick of re-entering everything....I really am. I just want a phone that works all the time with full functionality.Just get a new one is fine....but this is stupid.

ickster said:
No it does not affect usability at all. Some have posited that when Gingerbread gets released it will be more noticable on its dark notification bar. Some have also complained that their screen bleed has progressed to "bars" but I've only seen that a few times. I think virtually everyone will tell you it's a non issue.
That said, IMO, it is the lack of a real response that is indicative of the biggest issue of all.That being the lack of real support. People are getting them replaced, but that's it. I just want a phone that works. I have had a lot of issues. Getting a new one every two weeks is no fun. I'm in limbo now. I'm sick of re-entering everything....I really am. I just want a phone that works all the time with full functionality.Just get a new one is fine....but this is stupid.
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So am I lol. Not with G2x but other phones. I am just looking for one that works. I need an international phone. I want one with a ffc to video chat to home. I want to future proof my device and I am doing that with a ffc, 4g, and a dual core processor. Its not an issue for me but I dont want it to become one.

not a thing, just crazy people having to have something to complain about. it really isn't serious at all.

ickster said:
No it does not affect usability at all. Some have posited that when Gingerbread gets released it will be more noticable on its dark notification bar. Some have also complained that their screen bleed has progressed to "bars" but I've only seen that a few times. I think virtually everyone will tell you it's a non issue.
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Im using Cm7 right now and it has a black bar on top and I notice that the side with light bleed looks a little washed out compared to the rest of the bar. You notice it even if its not dark but probably not if the lights are really bright
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the colors on this thing look beautiful and I'm wondering if when gb comes with its black status bar will things start to look a little off.
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The effect is purely cosmetic and is a result of the sort of screen the G2x uses. Most phones use a LED screen, particularly AMOLED and Super AMOLED. The G2x uses an LCD screen, which is what most TVs use.
LCD screens are much, much brighter (my old AMOLED screen's optimum brightness in daylight was 100%, this one is 25%) and displays colors with much more vibrance, but it doesn't handle black very well. Turn on your television in a dark room to an empty channel (like DVD when the dvd player isn't on) and you'll see the same effect.
Personally, I don't mind. In fact, I prefer the LCD: the brightness and color is more than good enough to offset the bleed.
rllong1 said:
I'm wondering if when gb comes with its black status bar will things start to look a little off.
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After using the leaked 2.3.3 update, I can tell you that it definitely does look odd, but only when you're in a pitch-black room.

That's what I was worried about. Are you going to keep it? I'm trying to debate if I will or not. I do not really want the sensation
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G2x wow!!

there is probably another thread about the same stuff but i just gotta say it i just got the LG G2x last friday all i can say is wow i love this phone super fast far more faster then my epic 4g and evo 4g im in love with my phone its awesome

Congrats! Welcome to the forums.

Welcome man, you'll love this phone specially if you are like me, lucky one with no reboots and screen bleed.
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*Omnipresent* said:
Congrats! Welcome to the forums.
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thx cant wait to see more roms
i wish i new how to port roms make etc etc.... lol

cervantesjc said:
Welcome man, you'll love this phone specially if you are like me, lucky one with no reboots and screen bleed.
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i dont get no reboots or screen bleeding whats so ever

Welcome dude glad you're liking it. Lemme know if you have any questions ill try and help as best I can.
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freakshow11582 said:
i dont get no reboots or screen bleeding whats so ever
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there are some people here claiming that tmobile should be receiving new units that supposedly has no screen bleed...hopefully they are right and i can go exchange my unit for one without screen bleed.

What is a screen bleed, and how do you know if your screen has it? I can't see any problem on mine. Does it only occur when you have certain wallpaper?

mmapcpro said:
What is a screen bleed, and how do you know if your screen has it? I can't see any problem on mine. Does it only occur when you have certain wallpaper?
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I would like to hear the answer to this too, what does screen bleed look like? I've tried pure black and pure white wallpaper looking for whatever you guys are talking about.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only person who has a near-perfect G2X that doesn't misbehave in all the ways people here talk about. The only way I can get my phone to spontaneously boot or any other signs of instability is to overclock to 1500 and run Mandrobench five times in a row, by which time it is red hot. If good G2X's are so hard to come by maybe I should auction mine off.

Cubeology said:
I would like to hear the answer to this too, what does screen bleed look like? I've tried pure black and pure white wallpaper looking for whatever you guys are talking about.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only person who has a near-perfect G2X that doesn't misbehave in all the ways people here talk about. The only way I can get my phone to spontaneously boot or any other signs of instability is to overclock to 1500 and run Mandrobench five times in a row, by which time it is red hot. If good G2X's are so hard to come by maybe I should auction mine off.
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Go into a room with all the lights off. Start up a video or something in which the background is all black (and pause before it starts playing). The screen bleed will appear at the top left or right corners of the device. If your screen does bleed you will be able to see some light penetrate through lighting up the top corners. If you do have it you can't miss it as it quite pronounced.

When you have a all black wallpaper look into all the corners of your screen (usually top right and left corners) if you have back bleed you will notice where the light bleeds out onto the black wallpaper. It doesn't effect me to much because I don't use dark wallpapers I like to show off my colors and nice screen but hopefully your unit doesn't have this issue enjoy
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Two droid charge's , different color tint

I have two droid charges and I drop down the notification bar, the brown looks totally off from my other droid charge, every color brown is distorted, looks like a pinkish tint.what can be the problem? totally stock
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juanzr1 said:
I have two droid charges and I drop down the notification bar, the brown looks totally off from my other droid charge, every color brown is distorted, looks like a pinkish tint.what can be the problem? totally stock
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I had 2 fascinates and had the same issue. I'm guessing since the screen is organic it changes color over time, or maybe 2 screens made at different times just have different hues....

Mine has a noticeable greenish tint next to my wife's. I considered trading out but then who says the next one I get wouldn't have some other defect? I just write it off as 'adds character'.

Very common for any type of display. Thats why there are such extensive color/gamma correction features built into LCD TVs, though people rarely take advantage of them. If we had some sort of gamma tool for Android you could remove these variations fairly easily.

ssmaster said:
I had 2 fascinates and had the same issue. I'm guessing since the screen is organic it changes color over time, or maybe 2 screens made at different times just have different hues....
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yea your right, its just that my charges colors are so real. and the other one has all the same colors except that brown looks pinkish

MillionManMosh said:
Mine has a noticeable greenish tint next to my wife's. I considered trading out but then who says the next one I get wouldn't have some other defect? I just write it off as 'adds character'.
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lol yea your right, it might be a good thing

Same thing happened to my girlfriend and her mom on their fascinates
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juanzr1 said:
yea your right, its just that my charges colors are so real. and the other one has all the same colors except that brown looks pinkish
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My brown looks awesomely brown. Is this a change up in the display lately?

I suspect that Voodoo Color, if it worked on the Charge, would be able to remedy this. I have no idea if Voodoo Color for the Charge is under development or has been scrapped though.

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I suspect that Voodoo Color, if it worked on the Charge, would be able to remedy this. I have no idea if Voodoo Color for the Charge is under development or has been scrapped though.
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Imosyen's kernel has bits of voodoo color built in.
It's definitely possible to have the full mod available for us. In fact it's probably on its way.
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I went through three replacement Charges before getting one that looked close enough to stock. Was really bugging me... I'm happy to hear that there might be a way to adjust in the future.
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red flashing infared light.....anyone else notice?

While making/receiving/in call....there is a flashing red light. Did anyone else notice this besides me? It's towards the bottom left of the FC.
Is there a purpose for this?

Haha yeah dude that's the proximity sensor that cuts the screen off when you put it to your face. I noticed that last night. Pretty funny that you can actually see it.

Dude Its The Government....... Their Watching Us!

nickmv said:
Haha yeah dude that's the proximity sensor that cuts the screen off when you put it to your face. I noticed that last night. Pretty funny that you can actually see it.
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Take any camera and film your different remotes while you press their buttons and the camera will upconvert the infrared spectrum into the visible spectrum.
But I have never heard of any human able to actually see the infrared spectrum although there exists animals that can detect it.

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Take any camera and film your different remotes while you press their buttons and the camera will upconvert the infrared spectrum into the visible spectrum.
But I have never heard of any human able to actually see the infrared spectrum although there exists animals that can detect it.
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Indeed. My first thought when I saw it was "why am I seeing infrared light....what the hell?????". But anyways, no biggie. Can't really see it unless you're looking for it in the dark or something. Certainly isn't an issue or problem.

i too can see it
does that mean we are superhuman ?
Im off to try and blow stuff up with my mind. Ill report back later

azzledazzle said:
i too can see it
does that mean we are superhuman ?
Im off to try and blow stuff up with my mind. Ill report back later
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OK I thought REALLY hard and was able to levitate the One S. I'll see what else we can do with it. I think the next step is using it as a heat ray weapon.

Lol, pmsl!
I know I had nothing constructive to add to the op's post but it was very funny along with the comments, made me giggle while having my lunch
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Slicktune said:
Dude Its The Government....... Their Watching Us!
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Whose "watching us" is it? lol
Yeah, make a call in a dark room, you'll see it. But its def. the prox. sensor.

smart butts!!!
Lol, sorry I didn't mean to put inferred, I put inferred because it was red. But you guys knew what was getting at.
Thanks for the answer nickmv.

I just tested it myself and what do you know... the LED has a dim glowing red... very faint but it's there... so no... it's not really in the infrared spectrum but quite close to it nonetheless... but then again it could be a dual colored LED; one with the infrared light and one with the visible light... I don't know...

It is so freaky! But true. Only visible in a dark environment for me.

I was killing time with my one s camera and my remote control, never know u can see the inferred light from a camera, Feels like science class

It's the proximity sensor...you know, the thing that turns your screen on and off when you put the phone to your face during a phone call then move it away from your face...
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Well I'm stock T-Mobile us and the light is on when I am using Bluetooth is that suppose to happen?
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darn this thread got me excited, thought maybe the One s had another notification light that we could use for stuff! I really hate the placement of the LED on this phone, but I guess its good enough that it even has one. I wish it would glow at least, not just flash. would be a lot more noticable

I noticed it today in bright sunlight. And there is another thingy next to it. Nevertheless I find that red flickering light pretty annoying. It makes me nervous, it flickers like a ethernet status LED. Hope theres a way to turn it off...
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Did anyone solve this?
I have a problem with the sensor; If i use my headset, it won't stop blinking after I make a call. If I make a new call and immediately end the call, the sensor stops blinking.
I contacted HTC and they told me that I should send it for repairs...

Thiesen said:
I just tested it myself and what do you know... the LED has a dim glowing red... very faint but it's there... so no... it's not really in the infrared spectrum but quite close to it nonetheless... but then again it could be a dual colored LED; one with the infrared light and one with the visible light... I don't know...
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I remember this red glow of the LED from the good old IRDA transmitters that we had in phones and laptops years ago.
If you look at the light spectrum you'll notice that Infrared is very close to red
http://www.learnmyshot.com/photos/030-infrared/infrared-spectrum-post.jpg

+1... I noticed the same "effect" on my phone last night - H/W malfunction? Does it drain a little bit a battery by "sensing" continuously? Or just a "cosmetic" matter?...
Any feedback from HTC or another source? Any way to disable it?
EDIT : "I contacted HTC and they told me that I should send it for repairs..." <- I hope it could be solved without that option ...

[Q] Does the M8 have a notification LED?

Title says it all

yes
yes, it's behind the speaker grill.

Good to know. I was comparing it to my Note2 on PhoneArena and they didnt list that as a feature. I was thinking it didnt have it and how much I hated that on my Droid Charge(?). Thanks for the info.

Joebroni said:
Good to know. I was comparing it to my Note2 on PhoneArena and they didnt list that as a feature. I was thinking it didnt have it and how much I hated that on my Droid Charge(?). Thanks for the info.
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It's really small though. I'm coming from the Droid Razr HD so I'm used to the nice light that phone had. This one is harder to see.

Redline80 said:
It's really small though. I'm coming from the Droid Razr HD so I'm used to the nice light that phone had. This one is harder to see.
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Same here. But actually, i think i really like the tiny light.

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Title says it all
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Yeah coming from other devices with LED this is by far the cheapest/most minimal looking. I went even as far to install the 3rd party active notifications app since I got used to it instead of the LED on the Moto X.

It's there. But it's not as bright as it was on the M7.

RGB LED Control Support?
Hey Guys,
Does the M8 support multiple color LED notifications, ie Blue for Facebook, White for SMS, Pink for e-Mail etc?
Generally you need to have Root and installed some Apk/app like 'LightFlow' from the play store.
Such a small feature but a big impact for me to be able to tell what notifications there are from a distance or in a meeting with out waking up the phone.
Im keen to buy a HTC M8 tomorrow if it supports this, if not ill wait for the S5 next week.
Thanks

Troden said:
Hey Guys,
Does the M8 support multiple color LED notifications, ie Blue for Facebook, White for SMS, Pink for e-Mail etc?
Generally you need to have Root and installed some Apk/app like 'LightFlow' from the play store.
Such a small feature but a big impact for me to be able to tell what notifications there are from a distance or in a meeting with out waking up the phone.
Im keen to buy a HTC M8 tomorrow if it supports this, if not ill wait for the S5 next week.
Thanks
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Any HTC phone I've had uses only green and orange. It's the same for the M8.

Troden said:
Hey Guys,
Does the M8 support multiple color LED notifications, ie Blue for Facebook, White for SMS, Pink for e-Mail etc?
Generally you need to have Root and installed some Apk/app like 'LightFlow' from the play store.
Such a small feature but a big impact for me to be able to tell what notifications there are from a distance or in a meeting with out waking up the phone.
Im keen to buy a HTC M8 tomorrow if it supports this, if not ill wait for the S5 next week.
Thanks
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Lightflow does not work. I've tested every option and could not get it to work wit the M8. It sucks.

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Title says it all
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yeah its at an odd place , two down and seven from the right lol (top speaker grill dots). Another thing I noticed is the orange charging/low power light is rather dim but the green notification light is very bright (compared to the other). Anyone else notice this?

x70xchallengerx said:
yeah its at an odd place , two down and seven from the right lol (top speaker grill dots). Another thing I noticed is the orange charging/low power light is rather dim but the green notification light is very bright (compared to the other). Anyone else notice this?
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Yeah, can't see the orange unless I'm looking at the phone dead on, but I can see the green from across the room.

Before buying this phone, I was well aware of the lack of (customizable) LED notification support with HTC, and it still didn't stop me. This phone makes up for it in so many ways. After using it for a while, I thought for sure someone would at least figure out how to choose between amber and green LEDs for notifications, or even a combination of the two, but it seems only green is allowed somehow. Lightflow didn't work for me either. What a pity, as my Moto Droid could do many colors.

Lightflow worked pretty well for me, currently not using it, but there is a thread around that has a pretty good setup proceedure. I just found that it had some quirks, so I'm back to stock. You can disable the timeout if you edit the default.xml
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The stock LED light is pretty doing fine for me. Haven't tried the Lightflow yet for what I know, M8 has a limited colors for its LED light.