Hi all, about three months ago I replaced my phone's screen. Until recently I never noticed anything wrong with the OEM replacement. But earlier today I noticed that the bottom of the screen (where the nav buttons are) lights up with more strength than the rest of the screen... Is there any way to fix that or do I have to just let it be?
Also, since I don't know if the problem was there right from the moment I made the repair, I was wondering if this could be caused by software (let me explain).. I use an app called Screen Filter, that acts like a screen dimmer, but the thing is that it never dims the bottom of the screen because of some kit kat incompatibility (as like in the windows counterpart software (Dimmer) when a window is momentarily above other the dim goes off for that particular window, and the moment you finally select the window all the screen is dimmed for good). Could this Screen Filter app have caused damage on the bottom of the screen, consequence of always being not dimmed while the rest of the screen was?
Thanks in advance.
PD: Since I saw the problem I uninstalled the app as a precaution and tried to reboot and see if that made the trick, but unfortunately it didn't. Maybe the damage its already done.
Is it light bleed? Some LCD panels are plagued with it. I had a replacement N5 that just got sent back to Google that had horrible light bleed on the bottom of the screen. It could just be the panel you used and you never noticed it before. An app can't damage the screen like that, as LCD panels are not susceptible to burn in like OLED is.
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I dropped my TF700 with the dock and it fell on its back(tablet). It closed shut and when i tried to restart it i do not see any display
later the display comes up but in jagged lines half black and half display, the touch doesn't seem to respond , i can see that it boots
and i can access it on my computer all the files and entire system but i cannot do anything with touchscreen and lcd. after repeated touching
it has the touch sound that comes not very often.
I opened the screen and i see no physical damage to the screen. Is there an inverter board of LCD that might have gone bad due to that
or has any one faced this problem , so that even if i have to order a replacment part i know which one to order first i thought of
ordering the LCD + Touchpanel but it looks like i am doubting that the LCD has gone bad.
Can anyone please help if they have faced this issue ??
Hello. The screen on my wife's S4G today suddenly started acting funny. First, it wouldn't display anything, but it seemed the phone was still functional. Then, with fiddling on my part, I got it working again, first fully and now in a sub-par way. The phone boots fine - and I actually unlocked the bootloader and rooted, and in the process went through a full reset, just to see if that would help anything - but the screen appears dimmer than before and there's vertical banding across most of it. The banding doesn't completely obscure the screen, but it looks bad. One other thing I notice, and this is reported in other places, is that there's backlight bleed in the lower left corner, even when you just insert the battery, and often on booting, there's a flash of pixelated "dust" across the screen, that's brightest in that corner and fades as it spreads out.
Anyway, TMI probably. Does this sound to anyone like a bad screen, bad connector, digitizer, or something else? I'm totally new to any of these kinds of issues, but would like to save the phone, if possible. TIA.
I don't really know what is happening but my year old nexus 5 seems to be developing a display problem.
It got a yellowish tint at the bottom of the screen but the top 3/4 is totally fine. What is causing it and is it just me who have this problem? Also, if you have any, please post some solutions to the problem without RMA or replacing anything.
It might be something about light leak but I am not seeing any when the screen is displaying a black picture.
onjchan said:
I don't really know what is happening but my year old nexus 5 seems to be developing a display problem.
It got a yellowish tint at the bottom of the screen but the top 3/4 is totally fine. What is causing it and is it just me who have this problem? Also, if you have any, please post some solutions to the problem without RMA or replacing anything.
It might be something about light leak but I am not seeing any when the screen is displaying a black picture.
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I have a similar thing but it tends to only be on the bottom 1/8 of the screen.
I tend to find this is because this is the least used area of the screen - being where the soft keys go. Try running it full screen, full brightness on a white page (probably using something like this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gombosdev.displaytester&hl=en_GB). When you do this, does the yellowish tint fade over time?
surrealjam said:
I have a similar thing but it tends to only be on the bottom 1/8 of the screen.
I tend to find this is because this is the least used area of the screen - being where the soft keys go. Try running it full screen, full brightness on a white page (probably using something like this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gombosdev.displaytester&hl=en_GB). When you do this, does the yellowish tint fade over time?
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By Over Time do you mean 30 minutes or a day? I tried this method before for about half an hour and it does not seems to be working. Will try it again now. But will it really help?
My OCD is killing me. I told myself not to look at the tint and I end up just staring at it.
I received my XT926 as a refurb and I have been experiencing a strange screen issue.
I will often have my phone on a dock, charging and sometimes I will notice the screen is black like it's off, but the touchscreen is responsive. Hitting the power button does nothing but it makes the sound as if I had locked the phone. Hitting the power button a second time will turn the screen on like normal operation.
Very rarely I have noticed the screen will turn off while I'm actually using the phone and it's a weird effect. The easiest way to describe it is that it looks like entire lines disappearing randomly over a period of 1-2 seconds, going from all visible, then to all black, kind of like slatted blinds being closed, but at random. After this, it displays the same symptoms as if I had found the screen off while in a dock/charging.
Now, I don't want to say it's related, but I first started experiencing this on the Stock KitKat update from Verizon. I am currently using Cyanogenmod 12 nightlies and I am experiencing the same issue. It seems to be happening with greater frequency.
I have also experienced the blue screen effect when certain animations/elements/apps are up on my screen, but I think they are unrelated.
Also, there is a faint discoloration bar about 2/5ths of an inch thick uniformly vertically from top to bottom of my phone on the righthand side (just under where the notification bar would be if turned horizontal).
I've tried to find more information about this but my search results have been relatively lackluster (90% of the results are trying to sell me the phone or specification pages)
So I'm breaking down and turning to here. Does anyone know what's going on here? My current theory is that my screen is going bad. I have no intention of replacing the screen on this phone (would rather just buy a new one), so any suggestions that don't involve physical hardware repairs would be appreciated.
I thought i was the only one experiencing it.
The screen turning off with a weird effect happens rarely but yeah it happens. And the blue screen effect, i noticed it only happens when im on the youtube app when the video stops working because of my connectivity issues.
Im not rooted nor is my bootloader unlocked. On the latest system version. Sounds like a software problem but hey im no expert.
kayonesoft said:
I received my XT926 as a refurb and I have been experiencing a strange screen issue.
I will often have my phone on a dock, charging and sometimes I will notice the screen is black like it's off, but the touchscreen is responsive. Hitting the power button does nothing but it makes the sound as if I had locked the phone. Hitting the power button a second time will turn the screen on like normal operation.
Very rarely I have noticed the screen will turn off while I'm actually using the phone and it's a weird effect. The easiest way to describe it is that it looks like entire lines disappearing randomly over a period of 1-2 seconds, going from all visible, then to all black, kind of like slatted blinds being closed, but at random. After this, it displays the same symptoms as if I had found the screen off while in a dock/charging.
Now, I don't want to say it's related, but I first started experiencing this on the Stock KitKat update from Verizon. I am currently using Cyanogenmod 12 nightlies and I am experiencing the same issue. It seems to be happening with greater frequency.
I have also experienced the blue screen effect when certain animations/elements/apps are up on my screen, but I think they are unrelated.
Also, there is a faint discoloration bar about 2/5ths of an inch thick uniformly vertically from top to bottom of my phone on the righthand side (just under where the notification bar would be if turned horizontal).
I've tried to find more information about this but my search results have been relatively lackluster (90% of the results are trying to sell me the phone or specification pages)
So I'm breaking down and turning to here. Does anyone know what's going on here? My current theory is that my screen is going bad. I have no intention of replacing the screen on this phone (would rather just buy a new one), so any suggestions that don't involve physical hardware repairs would be appreciated.
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i also have this with my referb i made moto give me my money back and they let me keep the phone for me it was very rare but my new phone also had a really bad screen all yellowish and bad white balance in low light if you are unhappy with it call them and say you are unhappy with the replacement here is the white glove number 800-653-7185 they are more understanding and nice but you may lose you ability to unlock your bootloader on the new phone if it comes with the latest software just a warning
I have that screen off with lines slowly disappearing thing, too And, yeah, it's also a refurbished one, bought from one of the sellers on aliexpress... I thought Lollipop was the culprit or something like that. Oh, well... It rarely happens. And luckily I only have that, not the second issue you mentioned
I am having this exact same issue. The weird lines-to-black screen thing, and the flickering blue screen when watching video. Are you saying the solution is to call Motorola and ask for a new phone?
The blue flickering can be prevented by going into Developer Options and checking "Disable HW Overlays".
The discolored stripe on the screen sounds like burn-in; these AMOLED screens are much more susceptible to burn-in than the LCD screens used in older phones. Whomever owned the phone before it was returned to Motorola probably had something running on their screen continuously with a bright-colored bar at the top, likely in a car or desk dock. The screen is very easy to replace yourself with an eBay part, if you're inclined; it involves 2 screws and 2 connectors.
I've seen the lines-to-black thing exactly twice since I got this phone refurb two months ago. Sorry, I don't know what causes it or how to avoid it, but the workaround is quick and simple enough that I'm not worried about it, yet.
I had my battery replaced last week. Upon receiving it back, I've noticed the notification bar will pull down even when I touch about 1/2 inch below it. For example, touching the Twitter home button in the top left corner will pull down notifications instead of taking me to the top of my feed. I've re-calibrated the G-sensor, factory reset (keeping on a flat, level surface), and rebooted in safe mode. The problem persists. The company that replaced my battery said they ran all of the troubleshooting they could find. This issue seems to be a hardware issue and not software. So my question is twofold. First, has anyone else ever experienced this problem and, second, could the company have damaged something internally causing this issue?
Edit: Not rooted, no custom rom.
Thank you in advance for any help.
cmatg said:
I had my battery replaced last week. Upon receiving it back, I've noticed the notification bar will pull down even when I touch about 1/2 inch below it. For example, touching the Twitter home button in the top left corner will pull down notifications instead of taking me to the top of my feed. I've re-calibrated the G-sensor, factory reset (keeping on a flat, level surface), and rebooted in safe mode. The problem persists. The company that replaced my battery said they ran all of the troubleshooting they could find. This issue seems to be a hardware issue and not software. So my question is twofold. First, has anyone else ever experienced this problem and, second, could the company have damaged something internally causing this issue?
Edit: Not rooted, no custom rom.
Thank you in advance for any help.
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This probably doesn't help you but... I've had several m8's now. The first was a loaner from a friend, and on that phone the only way to activate the notification bar was LITERALLY to swipe down from OFF the top of the screen. On that phone, the glass was flush with the bezel at the top, maybe even recessed. At the bottom it was not quite flush.
On the one I have now, the glass is not quite flush with the bezel on the top AND bottom (not so far that it's "coming unglued", just a hair, just enough to feel as you swipe onto the screen) and the notification bar works "correctly" but can be a little overzealous (not as bad as what you describe).
The other one I tried out was roughly the same as the one I have now.
I wonder if the digitizer positioning has anything to do with it? These two newer ones also have a tiny bit of light bleed from the top edge. I've been tempted to heat it up and push down the glass to seat everything a little more firmly, but nothing seems "wrong".
As I said, not sure if this will help you at all, just giving you more data points.