Today my screen made some funny stuff for about a minute the screen sides are black and random colors were splashed on the screen (blue, red, green etc..) the screen was half messed up and the other half where you could actually see the UI the colors were all faded. This stayed for about a minute and then returned to normal.
I'm worried now that this is the end of the life of this screen. Anybody had this issue? Note that the phone useage was normal not even heavy and it did not drop or anything of that sort
Hello,
two years ago I accidentally took my S5 for a swim, after the accident phone was resting for 18 months in a drawer. Unfortunately I cracked my next phone so S5 is now my daily driver. Everything is working fine except screen colors, everything has a yellow/grey tint and display is a lot dimmer, especially on black colors. One time when phone got really hot screen started to work just fine, all colors regent to normal but it lasted only for a few minutes, so I assumed it was heat related.
4 days ago without any reason my screen somehow healed itself and screen started to work properly again, I couldn't believe how it was possible. Unfortunately after 4 days with perfect colors, blacks was truly black and brightness was fully working screen return to the damaged state.
Does anyone know how it was possible, what actually happened and is there any way to fix it again?
It's been a while since I had a phone with an oled screen, and I remember that after a few months of use the screen would burn in in specific areas where the same image was displayed continuously, e.g. the notification and navigation bars.
Now I'm worried that enabling "always on", which makes the clock and notifications show up in the screen all the time, will cause this problem.
Should I disable it? Are oled screens better now? Don't they do that anymore?
I would imagine that Google has installed some type of burn in protection where it moves the images slightly to avoid this.
Archangel said:
I would imagine that Google has installed some type of burn in protection where it moves the images slightly to avoid this.
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That's what I thought at first, but they don't seem to move at all...
What I've read is that the info on the screen moves one pixel every minute to avoid burn-in.
Yeah, same as the flagships, it moves.
My Samsung S9 moves the time/date on the always-on screen by a wide, very noticeable amount (up, down, left right). Which is (I think) the right way to avoid burn-in.
As best I can tell the 3a does move the always-on time/date display. But it's not by much. This is really quite surprising because, yes, I think AOD will leave a blurry region right in the middle of the display which inevitably is going to be noticeable. To test this I placed a Post-It note on the screen, on the base-line, just under the day, month, temperature from the always-on display, then let the phone rest most of the day. It appears to me that the image is shifting, down, by a few pixels. After a few minutes the image shifts up, appearing to return to it's starting point. Without a reference-point (the Post_It Note) I'm not sure I'd be able to tell the image shifted at all.
If the display moves one pixel per minute, and the display has perhaps 400 pixels per inch, then it takes something like six and a half hours to move to the entire AOD to a new spot on the screen. Seems to me like that's laughably slow.
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My Samsung S9 moves the time/date on the always-on screen by a wide, very noticeable amount (up, down, left right). Which is (I think) the right way to avoid burn-in.
As best I can tell the 3a does move the always-on time/date display. But it's not by much. This is really quite surprising because, yes, I think AOD will leave a blurry region right in the middle of the display which inevitably is going to be noticeable. To test this I placed a Post-It note on the screen, on the base-line, just under the day, month, temperature from the always-on display, then let the phone rest most of the day. It appears to me that the image is shifting, down, by a few pixels. After a few minutes the image shifts up, appearing to return to it's starting point. Without a reference-point (the Post_It Note) I'm not sure I'd be able to tell the image shifted at all.
If the display moves one pixel per minute, and the display has perhaps 400 pixels per inch, then it takes something like six and a half hours to move to the entire AOD to a new spot on the screen. Seems to me like that's laughably slow.
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This aod has been implemented since the pixel 2, I believe. That device is coming up on being 2 years old. If this was an issue, I believe we would have heard someone complain about it by now. Maybe someone has, but I haven't heard it. I would say just enjoy your phone and don't worry so much. But I'm no engineer and have no expertise in the field.
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I have a 2016 Pixel, and the "always on" isn't always on. Maybe that's a setting somewhere, but functions similar to the old Moto X phones. The screen comes on when you interact with it for a few seconds, and then shuts off. Does the screen always display the clock/notification icons? That's definitely something I'd only want to be on for a few seconds at a time.
You can set it up both ways.
You can have it turn on when you double tap or pick up the phone, or you can have it to be always on, in which case it only turns off when you block the ambient sensors (so when it goes into a pocket, you put it face down on a table, and so on), otherwise it stays on.
Personally I set it up to turn on when I pick it up or double tap, really don't have the need to have it always on anyway.
It's really weird and I have never experienced this in any Android device, but at least once a day my phone will get this line about 1/8 screen length from the left and it stays and adjusts with the screen orientation. This issue started occurring I'd say about two weeks ago. I really do not know what's going on with my phone, the only thing I can guess is that the screen I purchased when I replaced my phone screen is running faulty, but this is screen I got around December. Taking a screenshot does not show the line on the device and it is 100% not a stray hair that's stuck to the device. What can I do to fix this? Rebooting or turning the device off doesn't work.
The lower half of my display over the last couple of days is "shaded" as if there is a mildly transparent window or split screen thing going on. Also, when trying to end a call this lower half is black until the other party hangs up then it goes back to the "shaded" appearance. This area flickers a little as well. There is no issue with touch sensitivity. It's kind of difficult to explain so I might need to get a video up. Anyone experienced this at all?