Greetings.
I've recently been struggling with a problem with my Galaxy S6 and I've searched far and wide on the interwebs for a solution, with no avail.
You see, whenever I turn my phone on, or wake it up from the lock screen, the screen flickers one or two times, but doesn't always turn on.
They keys are active, touchscreen is active, but no image.
Sometimes I have to try and unlock my screen two or three times to get an image, sometimes it turns on after the first flicker.
An example of what I am experiencing is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyiDgpUSkaE
[edit] Another example is this: when switching the display brightness, the screen goes to crap and starts flickering like crazy, and at minimum brightness text goes unreadable and small (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIMFaCy_KVY
I am not rooted, everything is stock FW, I had android 6 stock and recently upgraded to 7 stock OTA and the same issue persists.
I cannot access download mode or recovery because the screen won't turn on. Only time it turns on is when Android is booted. Even when booting, the blue led flashes because the device is booting but I have no image.
Please contribute with some ideas, I cannot wipe cache from recovery because I can't see anything even if I try to boot recovery (or download).
Thank you in advance!
Did you resolve this issue? If so, how? Mine started to do the same after a short fall. My initial thought was hardware but I can get into recovery and the screen functions just fine there.
When using Auto Dark Mode and switching from light, to dark, to light again, my Pixel 3 reboots, flashes black on the lock screen and aod, and eventually fails. Then, it tells me Android failed to load and I need to factory reset my phone. I'm on the latest Android 10 on a Verizon Pixel 3 (sadly quite locked down even in recovery mode). Has anyone else had this problem? It's happened to me twice within a week now and it's quite annoying.
Basically this, every 3 or 4 days or so my OnePlus screen will go dark. It isn't *crashing*, though - it's happened when I've had headphones in listening to music and the music still plays, responds to headset controls, etc., so I think it's just the screen. Normal reboot will not work (holding the power button), although this might be because that presents a reboot menu rather than just rebooting the device. I have to do power button + volume up to reboot the device, at which point it reboots and everything is back to normal. I'm happy to gather any addition logs/data needed to debug, but I can't find anything in my crash debugging app (because it's not a crash...). Other interesting pieces of info
- I get the "Intent Verification Service stopped responding" issue every reboot
- I originally installed by wiping OOS + Android 12 and trying to install 19.1 and 19.1 recovery; this failed (same problem as here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/denying-ota-because-it-is-a-spl-downgrade.4463975/), so I installed 18 instead, which failed, but then wiping and going back to 19 succeeded (because the update was newer and thus no longer a "downgrade", I presume. IDK what really happened there).
- Trying to do Android Beam hard crashes the whole device; I've disabled NFC for now
Other than that the build runs swimmingly. I can live with the other stuff but the screen shutting off randomly is worrying to me - anything I can do to fix this or help you guys help me fix it?
hyve9 said:
Basically this, every 3 or 4 days or so my OnePlus screen will go dark. It isn't *crashing*, though - it's happened when I've had headphones in listening to music and the music still plays, responds to headset controls, etc., so I think it's just the screen. Normal reboot will not work (holding the power button), although this might be because that presents a reboot menu rather than just rebooting the device. I have to do power button + volume up to reboot the device, at which point it reboots and everything is back to normal. I'm happy to gather any addition logs/data needed to debug, but I can't find anything in my crash debugging app (because it's not a crash...). Other interesting pieces of info
- I get the "Intent Verification Service stopped responding" issue every reboot
- I originally installed by wiping OOS + Android 12 and trying to install 19.1 and 19.1 recovery; this failed (same problem as here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/denying-ota-because-it-is-a-spl-downgrade.4463975/), so I installed 18 instead, which failed, but then wiping and going back to 19 succeeded (because the update was newer and thus no longer a "downgrade", I presume. IDK what really happened there).
- Trying to do Android Beam hard crashes the whole device; I've disabled NFC for now
Other than that the build runs swimmingly. I can live with the other stuff but the screen shutting off randomly is worrying to me - anything I can do to fix this or help you guys help me fix it?
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Go into display settings at the bottom and turn off pocket mode.
mattie_49 said:
Go into display settings at the bottom and turn off pocket mode.
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I don't see anything that says "pocket mode", here are my settings:
Brightness
Brightness level
Adaptive Brightness
Lock Display
Lock screen
Screen timeout
Appearance
Dark theme
Font
Font Size
Display size
Icon Shape
Color
Night Light
LiveDisplay
Colors
Other display controls
Rotation Settings
Display white balance
Smooth display
Full screen apps
Screen saver
Tap to wake
Prevent accidental wake-up
Tap to sleep
Wake on plug
All the "tap to <blank>" settings are on.
hyve9 said:
I don't see anything that says "pocket mode", here are my settings:
Brightness
Brightness level
Adaptive Brightness
Lock Display
Lock screen
Screen timeout
Appearance
Dark theme
Font
Font Size
Display size
Icon Shape
Color
Night Light
LiveDisplay
Colors
Other display controls
Rotation Settings
Display white balance
Smooth display
Full screen apps
Screen saver
Tap to wake
Prevent accidental wake-up
Tap to sleep
Wake on plug
All the "tap to <blank>" settings are on.
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Prevent accidental wake-up
mattie_49 said:
Prevent accidental wake-up
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This setting has been turned on, I'll keep my phone running for the next few days and see if it crops up again.
hyve9 said:
This setting has been turned on, I'll keep my phone running for the next few days and see if it crops up again.
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Ok, it's been about a week and a half, I thought this was resolved but lately the issue has cropped up again, always at inconvenient times. Any logging I can enable or other settings I can tweak?
Had the same issue when I upgraded from C.61, which I now have learned breaks some sensors like light and proximity.
I'm currently back to stock until I have some time on the weekend to experiment again with downgrading to C.47 and then installing LineageOS.
Seems to be happening more frequently as of late. Friendly reminder for those of you experiencing this to not press the power button a bunch of times to try and resolve as (at least on my phone) this calls 911 and then you have to awkwardly explain to emergency services that there is no emergency :/
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Prevent accidental wake-up
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I'm having the same issue continously, basically every time I put my phone into my pocket, it is unable to wake...
It is responsive but it's like the proximity sensor gets messed up.
I used on the proximity sensor tester apps to prove that it is still functioning properly, which I could turn it off at this point as it's certainly causing the issue based that it only happens when I put it into my pocket.
I've tried almost every combination of those settings at this point and it's not working. Might try doing a factory reset at this point..
Edit: I've used SD Maid to clear everything, it helped a bit.
Still having black screens. Going to just downgrade back to lineage os 18 till Twrp comes out for 12
Hello everyone there, I've bought a used OnePlus 7 pro a few days ago. But I'm having an issue with it.
Whenever I turn brightness to full, screen starts becoming small and big and small and big. I've tried turning adaptive brightness on and off, removing the screen protector, and rebooting into safe mode but nothing works.
I wanna know if the problem is with software or my phone's screen is damaged?
Here is the video.
Try to reset your device and check , maybe it will work
Have you found a solution? I have the same problem only worse the screen colors are pixeled and brightens and shuts off on its own. I turned off 90hz same problem ,phone is unusable.
I see that "cast to xxx" is enabled...your phone screen could be changing resolution/aspect ratio to match what it is trying to "cast" to...try turning that off...worth a shot.
Yesterday me Google Pixel 4a's screen went black, the screen was partly broken but it was working fine, now it just went black.
The power is on as I'm able to receive notifications and calls but the screen stays black. I tried to reboot it but doesn't work.
I suppose it is a hardware problem since the screen was broken but it is possible that I can use an external device as a screen just to get my data (or is there any software that can download the data from phone?)
Also it is possible to set up a new phone with the old one in this condition since fixing the screen is too expensive (~140€) and I'd rather buy a Pixel 6a