[Q] Nexus 5 Screen back light flickers slightly & Touch pointer ghosts. Please Help
Hello there,
I bought my Nexus 5 (D821) 16 GB from the grey market in UAE. Now after a week of excellent performance my phone screen back light seems to flicker like blink all the time, its mostly visible when the screen is at HOME or when the screen is grey in color. I tried switching off the Auto Brightening system , making brightness to lowest or highest none of then seem to help the flickering.
the second issue is my touch screen goes Mad/Ghost touch/Phantom touch while i touch the screen but not move my finger. i just cant type anything.
FYI : I rooted the phone the day i bought it. And yah no Warranty!
Please Help!
Need some guidance, I have a Transformer 300 and having terrible visibility with screen. Screen Brightness is on 100% and have auto brightness turned off. Can view inside okay not great. Outside impossible even under shade. Only visible with complete darkness. Is this a hardware issue that I can fix? My eyes are starting to strain. I had to have screen replaced a few months ago. Could damage now be showing up?
savvymom said:
Need some guidance, I have a Transformer 300 and having terrible visibility with screen. Screen Brightness is on 100% and have auto brightness turned off. Can view inside okay not great. Outside impossible even under shade. Only visible with complete darkness. Is this a hardware issue that I can fix? My eyes are starting to strain. I had to have screen replaced a few months ago. Could damage now be showing up?
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Try an apk called Lux. It will over ride your tablets normal max screen brightness and Max it out to the device's true max. I use it on about 4 devices including my TF300T it's awesome
I noticed that my auto brightness will adjust and get bright when I turn on a light but then immediately when I turn the light off the brightness doesn't go back down. Anyone else have this? I'm guessing it's software?
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Yes. I play with that by keeping my s6 under the lamp. Super high brightness levels.
I was just about to make this thread when I noticed yours.
Actually for me, I get low brightness levels it's very annoying. When I'm in moderate lighting conditions like normal lit room I get almost lowest brightness, when I move phone out in the open area, like outside, the screen lights up like it should, but in moderate lighting contitions it is very bothersome to have lowest brightness.
I'm now thinking of searching a good auto-brightness app. Any suggestions?
Giancarlo456 said:
I was just about to make this thread when I noticed yours.
Actually for me, I get low brightness levels it's very annoying. When I'm in moderate lighting conditions like normal lit room I get almost lowest brightness, when I move phone out in the open area, like outside, the screen lights up like it should, but in moderate lighting contitions it is very bothersome to have lowest brightness.
I'm now thinking of searching a good auto-brightness app. Any suggestions?
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Cmon people we need more information on this!
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Cmon people we need more information on this!
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I cannot say any specific reproduction steps, but it looks like I have similar problems..
Galaxy S6 is my first Samsung device ever (before M9 I was HTC fan). Comparing experience with other devices I had - auto-brightness works definitely in a strange way.
Under direct lamp light - it's adjusted pretty much okay, but in a normally lit room - it's almost always too dark, and I need to adjust auto-brighntess level manually. So.. for me it's really not auto-brightness.
P.S. labas
So any other thoughts?
labas
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Labas
Giancarlo456 said:
I was just about to make this thread when I noticed yours.
Actually for me, I get low brightness levels it's very annoying. When I'm in moderate lighting conditions like normal lit room I get almost lowest brightness, when I move phone out in the open area, like outside, the screen lights up like it should, but in moderate lighting contitions it is very bothersome to have lowest brightness.
I'm now thinking of searching a good auto-brightness app. Any suggestions?
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Same thing here. No solution so far. I tried to install velis from the play store, it is not working. I decided to return my edge emerald green ( ) because of this issue. In a normal lit room I get always low brightness, I have also the S6 flat to compare, side by side, and the S6 flat is almost at the same brightness if I set it at 50% and the edge at 100% (both in manual setting). Unbelievable!
I have S6 FLAT, and the autobrightness work ok if the phone are horizontal. But if i have the phone in my hand (in an angle more than 10 ° / 20 °) the auto brightnes bright the screen, but when i turn the light off the brightness doesnt back down. But if the phone are horizontal (0° in my hand or in a table, the brightnes bright up and down without problems)
There is a new 5.1.1 minor update available. Has this solved the brightness bug of the s6 edge by chance?
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Just little different
I have a s6 flat and my screen is always on full brightness when auto brightness is on.
Tried the light senson and it seems to work fine (0 to 1 lux on dark room, 400 to 600 lux near to a light bulb). This problem started two days ago.
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Qix84 said:
I have S6 FLAT, and the autobrightness work ok if the phone are horizontal. But if i have the phone in my hand (in an angle more than 10 ° / 20 °) the auto brightnes bright the screen, but when i turn the light off the brightness doesnt back down. But if the phone are horizontal (0° in my hand or in a table, the brightnes bright up and down without problems)
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Same, here. Help us out guys.
auto brightness issue
I also got an auto brightness issue on my s6 flat version. Specifically it's about the adapting to low light conditions after being in high light e.g. turning on a bed lamp for a second (screen lights up) and after turning the lamp off s6 stays too bright and does not want to get back to low brightnes. The thing that helps is either lock/unlock the screen which makes it wake up with proper brightness or uncheck/ check the autobrightness box at the bar.
Is it commonly known issue that Samsung knows about or is there any possibility to get it back to normal on my own? It drives me crazy in a flagship device!
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I have S6 FLAT, and the autobrightness work ok if the phone are horizontal. But if i have the phone in my hand (in an angle more than 10 ° / 20 °) the auto brightnes bright the screen, but when i turn the light off the brightness doesnt back down. But if the phone are horizontal (0° in my hand or in a table, the brightnes bright up and down without problems)
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I have got the same problem and I'm dead sure it is a sortware issue. I tested the light sensor and it can update on different light conditions no matter the orientation is. I also installed Velis Auto Brightness app and it fixed the issues so Samsung should fix that since 3rd party apps can.
I too have the same issue. The brightness ramps up as its supposed to under bright light but doesnt go down under low light/no light unless i do one of the following:
1) keep my phone horizontal or at angle of >180 degrees
2) lock/unlock the phone by pressing the power button
3) manually tick/untick the auto-brightness check box
Really annoyed. I still under the return period so not really sure its a hardware defect or not
Well, unfortunately I'm facing the same problem :crying:
What are the differences to phones which do not have this issue repectively is there something in common who have this issue.
The biggest changes I've made to the phone are: Arrow Launcher (MS) and radiant theme (no root etc.)
I got the same problem, autobrightness adjust only when phone is placed horizontally. Any news in this regard?
unfortunately no
Do you still have this issue? Because I have it on every single ROM, Custom or Stock, no mather...
I have found the max_brightness adjustment, (sys/class/backlight/panel/max_brightness) but I can't find a similar file for minimum brightness. Anyone know it's location? At the moment I'm using a third party app as well, but would rather have the system fix.
What is black screen of death??
Plz google it.
For those who are facing this issue.
I was also facing the black screen of death issue from past 3 months.
The only way to avoid it was through rebooting the device.
And by searching web others recomended to replace the flex cable.
Solution:- guys now i am not facing this issue by keeping the brightness greater than 5/10 (>5)percent.
I have tested this persnally for 10 days and i have not faced black screen of death till then.
But when i reduce the brightness to 0% i start experiencing the black screen of death.
I dont know properly what incresing brightness does.
Permant fix can also be done by increasing the minimum brightness value. (I dont know that hiw to do). May be devs can help here.
Those who are facing black screen of death keep your minimum brightness at or above 10% that will fix it.
Will try.
What ROM?
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What is black screen of death??
Plz google it.
For those who are facing this issue.
I was also facing the black screen of death issue from past 3 months.
The only way to avoid it was through rebooting the device.
And by searching web others recomended to replace the flex cable.
Solution:- guys now i am not facing this issue by keeping the brightness greater than 5/10 (>5)percent.
I have tested this persnally for 10 days and i have not faced black screen of death till then.
But when i reduce the brightness to 0% i start experiencing the black screen of death.
I dont know properly what incresing brightness does.
Permant fix can also be done by increasing the minimum brightness value. (I dont know that hiw to do). May be devs can help here.
Those who are facing black screen of death keep your minimum brightness at or above 10% that will fix it.
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I got the same problem with my nexus 5 too. After lowering down brightness to below half somewhere, the phone screen shuts off but the phone is still on and if i blindly drop down the status bar and increase the brightness by assuming the slider there, the screen again turns on
One thing to note that my screen does not have any dead pixels or display problem at all because I tested it. Also when the screen turns off the task that was carried out on the phone still stays i mean that when i play game at night and lower the brightness, then the screen turns off but i can hear the sound of the game running.
I have tried many roms but the problem still remains.
yanni18 said:
I got the same problem with my nexus 5 too. After lowering down brightness to below half somewhere, the phone screen shuts off but the phone is still on and if i blindly drop down the status bar and increase the brightness by assuming the slider there, the screen again turns on
One thing to note that my screen does not have any dead pixels or display problem at all because I tested it. Also when the screen turns off the task that was carried out on the phone still stays i mean that when i play game at night and lower the brightness, then the screen turns off but i can hear the sound of the game running.
I have tried many roms but the problem still remains.
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Try changing the rom which has this issue fixed at around 10℅ brightness.
Bcoz above 50 ℅ is. Huge for battery drain.
I am currently on santosh m 7.1.1 15/12/16 build and i am not experiencing black screen at 10℅ brightness.
Since you play at night ( night modde will also help ).
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Try changing the rom which has this issue fixed at around 10℅ brightness.
Bcoz above 50 ℅ is. Huge for battery drain.
I am currently on santosh m 7.1.1 15/12/16 build and i am not experiencing black screen at 10℅ brightness.
Since you play at night ( night modde will also help ).
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I have tried Santosh ROM it's still there, but the thing is that this problem I am having was even on the latest stock ROM (till android 6.0.1 Dec).
I don't know why it happens.
Hello. Playing with the wallpapers from pixel, i noticed a white tint on the bottom part of the screen. Only on low brightness. Has anyone encountered this issue?
I have the XL but my fiancee has the smaller P3. She was getting a bright flash when the display was turning off and then had a discolored area on the bottom 1/3rd of the screen about where the flash was happening. I turned ambient display off and that stopped the bright flash and after an hour or two the discolored area went away.
Are you getting a bright flash when your screen dims off?
fury683 said:
I have the XL but my fiancee has the smaller P3. She was getting a bright flash when the display was turning off and then had a discolored area on the bottom 1/3rd of the screen about where the flash was happening. I turned ambient display off and that stopped the bright flash and after an hour or two the discolored area went away.
Are you getting a bright flash when your screen dims off?
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No, it's just a white tint on the bottom half of the screen as in the attachment. It's a permanent tint but it's visible only on minimum brightness.
Have it too a pink tint very noticeable when nightlight is activated and the brightness set to minimum
lecteur said:
Have it too a pink tint very noticeable when nightlight is activated and the brightness set to minimum
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Hope to get a replacement for this issue. Not ok for a 800€ device.
I have also the same display issue. Can anyone confirm if the tint issue is static or It will get worse on day-by-day?