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Hey everyone, I bought my HTC One S used, and at a discounted price because of screen burn-in. The burn-in isn't noticeable at higher brightness settings, but when there is a dark background applied, or when the backlight is dim, you can clearly see burned in areas.
Has anyone had any success using any burn-in removal techniques with apps like Display Tester?
(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gombosdev.displaytester&hl=en)
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spartanerik said:
Hey everyone, I bought my HTC One S used, and at a discounted price because of screen burn-in. The burn-in isn't noticeable at higher brightness settings, but when there is a dark background applied, or when the backlight is dim, you can clearly see burned in areas.
Has anyone had any success using any burn-in removal techniques with apps like Display Tester?
(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gombosdev.displaytester&hl=en)
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What exactly is screen burn-in? Is it the same as the screen has different color depending on what angle you are looking at it? My experience is when i look directly on my screen, it show some yellowish in white background, but when i tilt it forward or backward, the white becomes white with no yellowish color. And when i turn it sideways it become pinkish.. do you think my screen is busted? Or is it what you call the screen burn-in?
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angeloalonzo01 said:
What exactly is screen burn-in? Is it the same as the screen has different color depending on what angle you are looking at it? My experience is when i look directly on my screen, it show some yellowish in white background, but when i tilt it forward or backward, the white becomes white with no yellowish color. And when i turn it sideways it become pinkish.. do you think my screen is busted? Or is it what you call the screen burn-in?
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Yeah, exactly how you described it. Looks yellowish/orange depending on the background
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2486/4147471980_4e153af3bf_o.jpg
^-That's a good example of what a screen burn (or is it image retention?) looks like. Found this image on Google just for the purpose of an example, it's clearly not from an HTC One S haha
My friend who uses the HTC Sense clock has developed minor screen burn from having the clock widget in the same place since day one of his phone
spartanerik said:
Yeah, exactly how you described it. Looks yellowish/orange depending on the background
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2486/4147471980_4e153af3bf_o.jpg
^-That's a good example of what a screen burn (or is it image retention?) looks like. Found this image on Google just for the purpose of an example, it's clearly not from an HTC One S haha
My friend who uses the HTC Sense clock has developed minor screen burn from having the clock widget in the same place since day one of his phone
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But i don't have that kind of burn-in like in the picture.. the yellowish color i see is in the whole screen but in the picture you post ia only a part of the screen is having the yellowish patches..
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TC is probably referring to ghosting. Kinda like
http://www.pixeltuneup.com/images/screenburn.jpg
or to a lessor extend but more common
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/5523/2005fpwsw2.jpg
Notice the faint icons? As to fixing it, I don't believe there is a way other than replacing the screen. It happens when an image is displayed without movement. It sort of "burns" into the screen, and when viewing something else, its slightly visible, thus "ghosting"
As for the yellow tint you see in the whole screen, I believe some displays are just like that.
Hgaara said:
TC is probably referring to ghosting. Kinda like
http://www.pixeltuneup.com/images/screenburn.jpg
or to a lessor extend but more common
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/5523/2005fpwsw2.jpg
Notice the faint icons? As to fixing it, I don't believe there is a way other than replacing the screen. It happens when an image is displayed without movement. It sort of "burns" into the screen, and when viewing something else, its slightly visible, thus "ghosting"
As for the yellow tint you see in the whole screen, I believe some displays are just like that.
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Thank you for the explanation.. but i don't have that ghosting nor the faint icons.. i only experience the different colors when viewing in different angles, i just hate it, nothing else, but why is that?
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angeloalonzo01 said:
Thank you for the explanation.. but i don't have that ghosting nor the faint icons.. i only experience the different colors when viewing in different angles, i just hate it, nothing else, but why is that?
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tbh i wonder what would happen if you attempted to burn in the color inverted (dont do it, lol)
But most likely a new screen, which isn't too expensive.
If you had a big enough discount, it'd be no problem.
I found this one one x+ general forum. Credits to roobeyn.
"Warning!!! As someone commented he was totally unaware of this problem until he used this fix and it destroyed his experience with his phone
[REQ]Any developer that could help me with something? I want to make this app matching system UI with ready filters and put it in Setting so that it will look integrated like the galaxy screen settings, that would help ppl think the screenproblem is just a soft problem and doesn't depend on hardware. Please be kind and PM me
As many have noticed, and even made some ppl crazy is the yellow tint on our screen(HTC One X, Xperia Ion, S etc).
Searching for screen filtering at play store made my day!
Then i found this app: LINK https://play.google.com/store/apps/...e=search_result&rdid=com.netmanslab.sa&rdot=1
I installed it and then made a filter with:
Red 0
Green 0
Blue 8
Brightness: 100%
Contrast: -0
That made me feel like replacing the whole screen!
Second thing you should do is:
Press the MENU-button and go in to Options
Autorun [YES]
Hide status bar icon [YES]
Enjoy your screen!"
Works perfectly! Thanks again to roobeyn
Wow!
People are often choosing blue screen as being more white than real white color is. Please read why choosing white other then 6500k is making your eye not seeing many colours.
http://www.keohi.com/keohihdtv/learnabout/definitions/why6500k.html
Screen in one s is really very good calibrated as in every HTC phone past HTC Desire with amoled (which was first HTC calibrated screen with ota update and that update made reddish screen looks better).
Of course as every amoled it is very oversaturated, but it looks good on phone screen.
Anyway your advise for people which likes blue screen: adding blue to everything makes black not true black. This is looking bad, kills amoled contrast when normally black pixel are totally blank (because they are not lighting) and in that way will shorten battery life as normally on amoled black parts of the screen are not using any power.
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Thanks for sharing the app. I don't use the color settings, I love the screen as it is, but the lower than usual brightness helps me at night..
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What yellow tint, using that filter your screen is "colder", and like every filter you loose processing power and some colour. You are free to use it, but when you bought the phone, you checked the screen... Right?
Thanks for sharing I didn't notice the tint till I got the nexus 7, the one s screen is yellow compared to it, that edit with your settings fixed that, thanks.
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No problem. glad to help.
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One s screen is yellow wish. Its because of the amoled screen we have
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Never minded of the yellowish screen but i've tried tour app band the screen looks better white now is a real white
phoenixita said:
Never minded of the yellowish screen but i've tried tour app band the screen looks better white now is a real white
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But all of the other colors are blue..
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Update: 6/5/2013
* replaced method 1 with new method
Update: 19/7/2013
* added new hardware level fix for 9500 users
As of now we all know that almost all s4 units is suffering from smearing issue. After fiddling with some apps here and there I found a temporary solution , this should be handy until Samsung fixes it.
I suggest two method for this issue, Method 1 adjusts the rgb values of the screen(overlays) .Method 2 adjusts the contrast levels of the screen.
With both the above mentioned methods the black levels are not pitch black but will be on par with the blacks of s3 or anyother amoled screens. I prefer method 1, if you guys face any problems with method 1 then you can try method 2.
Method 1:
1.install screen adjuster app from market.
2.Set the values of green, blue, red between 5 to10(I prefer 5) and turn on the filter
3.job done
Method 2:
1.install screen adjuster app from market.
2.change the contrast level from -0 to -10(you can go upto -20 depending on how far your eyes can balance between smearing and pitch black)
3.turn on the adjuster.
4.job done
Method 3: (HARDWARE LEVEL FIX ONLY FOR 9500 USERS)
This method fixes the smearing at hardware level and changes contrast level of black backgrounds without touching other colors and dosent drains battery like screen adjuster. Thankst to @AndreiLux and @Slimmer77 for their contribution on screen calibration for 9500
Original post by @AndreiLux
AndreiLux said:
One is software and causes battery drain and applies to all colours if you want it or not, and the other is hardware, costs nothing and targets only black.
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AndreiLux said:
I doubt he does.
echo 4 > /sys/class/misc/mdnie/hook_control/scr_black_red
echo 4 > /sys/class/misc/mdnie/hook_control/scr_black_green
echo 4 > /sys/class/misc/mdnie/hook_control/scr_black_blue
Will give a 1.56% grey on blacks and removes all smearing. You need to set digital brightness reduction to 0 though since I didn't plan for this use-case and it negates the above "fix".
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1.Install a custom kernel that supports screen calibration.
2.goto screen tab
*enable register hook
*set digital brightness reduction to 0.
3.Flash the attached zip file
4.job done
Users who hate the non black background(especially it looks poor when used along with smearing fix) introduced by samsung on newer roms can flash teh blac background mod attached in this post
Note: Running screen adjuster on background will disable the "install" button while installing apps manually, so disable screen adjuster before you start installing something and resume using screen filter after the installation is over
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Thanks!
Do you mean the app Filter Your Screen?
bala_gamer said:
1.install screen filter app from market.
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Thanks for the great information....
You could however also post the URL og full name of the correct app as there is multible alternatives to choose from..
Hi.
How exactly the name this aplication.
In market is over dozen aplications.
Regards
Oops it's screen adjuster guys.
Added link to op
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Oops it's screen adjuster guys.
Added link to op
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n00b....
HAHHAHAH....
THANK YOU <3
How do you mean by smearing?
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Thid is screen smearing my video and the fix
http://youtu.be/qgxZfT0yXyY
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Does this mean it is software issue Samsung will fix? I have the pink tint on a solid black background I assume this is what method 1 fixes?
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topcat07 said:
Does this mean it is software issue Samsung will fix? I have the pink tint on a solid black background I assume this is what method 1 fixes?
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Personally, if you can fix or at least hide the issue with the above then at the very worst Samsung may change some settings in later roms to the same effect. I am hoping that it is actually a driver issue and a proper fix will come along....
This is an assumption but as the above works then I cannot see it being a hardware issue but then I am no expert.....
Won't this affect battery life? It seems to negate the power saving effect of AMOLED. I believe the smearing comes from the pixels going from off (black) to on (grey) and that switch time not happening fast enough. This app and workaround does definitely work, but it seems that it works because it's changing everything from black to veryyy very dark grey (still looks pretty black to me) however that means that the pixels aren't off if they're displaying grey instead of black right?
ok thx balagamer but its only patch for now hope samsung will fix it as i dont wanna blacks like on SGS3 and i really hope sammys fix wont be the same and they will steal the true black from us...that why i bought amoled right for the blacks
play2lose said:
Won't this affect battery life? It seems to negate the power saving effect of AMOLED. I believe the smearing comes from the pixels going from off (black) to on (grey) and that switch time not happening fast enough. This app and workaround does definitely work, but it seems that it works because it's changing everything from black to veryyy very dark grey (still looks pretty black to me) however that means that the pixels aren't off if they're displaying grey instead of black right?
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That's how the black looks on s3. Now I can understand why the blacks are pitch black in s4 compared to other galaxies to some extent.
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I hate my eyes, because I look so good, but fortunately there is a fix for it halfway. Now I longer scroll ever to go hahaha :good: many thanks!
I have pink tinge and method one just makes a screen too green but thanks anyway!
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Won't this affect battery life? It seems to negate the power saving effect of AMOLED. I believe the smearing comes from the pixels going from off (black) to on (grey) and that switch time not happening fast enough. This app and workaround does definitely work, but it seems that it works because it's changing everything from black to veryyy very dark grey (still looks pretty black to me) however that means that the pixels aren't off if they're displaying grey instead of black right?
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I believe this is indeed the case. Samsung could fix that by maintaining the pixels lit at the lowest power level, like with the previous Galaxy phones. I'm not sure if it's worth it though. Hopefully there'll be some even better work-around.
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Won't this affect battery life? It seems to negate the power saving effect of AMOLED. I believe the smearing comes from the pixels going from off (black) to on (grey) and that switch time not happening fast enough. This app and workaround does definitely work, but it seems that it works because it's changing everything from black to veryyy very dark grey (still looks pretty black to me) however that means that the pixels aren't off if they're displaying grey instead of black right?
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thats how samsung displayed the blacks in their past galaxy devices. With s4 the black pixels are completely turned off which is not the case with previous galaxy devices. hence even if samsung rolls out a fix they will simply make something similar to what we acheived with "screen adjuster". and dont forget you can still tweak the values in screen adjuster and find the best balance between black and smearing effect, the value "5" mentioned is suitable for me , it may or may not suit others.
so thay fu*ked up display also on previous phones and hide it behind the worse blacks really bravo samsung. I have my SGS4 from yesterday and have to say I see it clearly, the edges of grey lines are getting to purple colour. But I dont care because I can see it only if Im focusing on it. But for normal use you focus on text and what are you looking for and not to some grey lines right? So, Im rather happy with my super deep blacks...maybe some good AOSP/AOKP/Cyanogen will replace TW interface...
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so thay fu*ked up display also on previous phones and hide it behind the worse blacks really bravo samsung. I have my SGS4 from yesterday and have to say I see it clearly, the edges of grey lines are getting to purple colour. But I dont care because I can see it only if Im focusing on it. But for normal use you focus on text and what are you looking for and not to some grey lines right? So, Im rather happy with my super deep blacks...maybe some good AOSP/AOKP/Cyanogen will replace TW interface...
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It's not ****ed up but that's the way you can get the best out of amoled, lcd don't even have these features, even with this fix the black levels are way better than any other lcd screen in this world
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I'm not impressed by the screen at all, dead pixels, really bad ghosting and the screen turns pink at the bottom.
HTC One screen at least only had dead pixels.
Hey there, my phone's screen becomes red on the highest brightness setting if bright light comes near it: imgur. com/gGWYP2b
Is this some sort of software bug or is the phone broken or is it normal?
It's normal for some colors to appear different (as the panel is being overdriven), but it normally won't shift that drastically.
I'll grab my brother's phone later today and see if I can get a video of how mine looks
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Ok, mine just goes really bright and the contrast isn't as good. No real color shift.
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Devhux said:
Ok, mine just goes really bright and the contrast isn't as good. No real color shift.
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Thank you! In that case I'll return it.
Hello,
Though it never really bothered me but I see that there's a lot of buzz regarding this yellowish tint on screen of Moto G4 plus.
To fix it, well here's what you can do.
1. You need a rooted phone
2. Flash EX Kernel on the phone.
3. EX Kernel Manager app or Trickster Mod app from play store.
In EX Kernel app go to graphics and then to advanced color control.
Set RGB values to:
Red = 240
Green = 240
Blue = 256
Now I'm not sure if this EX Kernel has the RGB calibration and I can't really figure out if it worked. Though I did feel my screen to become more vibrant.......
So it's in discussion...... And I would be glad if you could try it and see if it makes a difference. It's no harm anyway, it's just an app and it's worth a try.
I'll be obliged if you people put your thoughts too.
Alright people, it does work, however values are
Red= 235
Green = 235
Blue = 256
It's great.:good:
Too much blue light is not good for your brain, especially at night. The original setup it was like that for a reason.
http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-has-a-dark-side
SoNic67 said:
Too much blue light is not good for your brain, especially at night. The original setup it was like that for a reason.
http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-has-a-dark-side
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You are absolutely right about the blue light thing...... But when in sunlight, u need to increase the blue for comfortable reading....
And average bluelight value below 270 is fine and it can't go above 256 so..... It shouldn't be much of a problem.....
Yes. There is that adaptive display...
When I first got my G Plus, the screen looked distinctly yellow. But after only a couple days it normalized and now it looks like a normal screen compared to others. Maybe it's the glue curing thing or whatever.
catpunt said:
When I first got my G Plus, the screen looked distinctly yellow. But after only a couple days it normalized and now it looks like a normal screen compared to others. Maybe it's the glue curing thing or whatever.
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I'm not sure but I guess maybe u got acquainted to the screen on your phone.
Place your phone side by side to any pure white screen and maybe you'll feel the difference......
U guys can also flash CM13, Temasek by Vache and disable Live display in display settings to see what exactly is white screen.
Cyanogenmod 13 for moto g4/g4+
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/development/rom-temasek-s-cm13-t3450727/page3
@cool_sid thanks, these values are just perfect. 235 red and green. Display looks vibrant like before with pure white color. Thanks buddy.
nitish_namdev said:
@cool_sid thanks, these values are just perfect. 235 red and green. Display looks vibrant like before with pure white color. Thanks buddy.
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Hit thanks button plz if it helped u. I'm glad I could be of use to u
I would like someone who has the screen with yellow It is verified the screen model, LGD or BOE for it just install the app link devcheck. thank you
App
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.devcheck
Print
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-T0A_rojCcraHNhR0RkMUg5NFU
Rkschunk said:
I would like someone who has the screen with yellow It is verified the screen model, LGD or BOE for it just install the app link devcheck. thank you
App
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.devcheck
Print
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-T0A_rojCcraHNhR0RkMUg5NFU
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I have a BOE panel and mine too has this yellow tint issue. According to Erica Griffin the screen is actually too greenish and all g4/g4 plus phones are affected
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Jiyeon90 said:
I have a BOE panel and mine too has this yellow tint issue. According to Erica Griffin the screen is actually too greenish and all g4/g4 plus phones are affected
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OK thank you for the information.
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I have lgd pannel n no yellow tint
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