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[HTC One X] joplayer:
In that case the guys at HTC are stupid enough to use the opposite values of the ones that solve the problem :p

I can picture the guy :

"Oh that is the configuration that is causing trouble ! Let's make it worst !"

However it could still be hardware, just not visible enough before.
[HTC One X] nickporwal:
i wonder if this flickering is related to some magnetic distortion. I remember putting a strong magnet close enough to the LCD TV also starts the same flickering on it. Maybe because of some damn magnetic part or defective shielding our screen is flickering.

For me and many others the flickering started after 1 or 2 days of usage. If its a hardware fault then it should have started from the moment phone is switched on first time.

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maybe you didnt noticed the flickering before the update...........i am not saying that you are wrong but if it had to be like that then many would have got the flickering after updating to 1.28...............
[HTC One X] mazewing:
I have a HT24 batch and have flickering too.

Can only see it on dark grey background and the higher the backlight, the more visible it is.
[HTC One X] turbox:
For me it's badder in 1.28 than 1.26.
[HTC One X] wizard123:
Im about send second handset back not impressed with the screen flex at all, i will say tho to me the flicker is hardware as my second unit HT23 same as first with exact same firmware from same store had NO flicker where as the first one did bad.
[HTC One X] RomNoR:
I am charging now, it doesn't flicker while charging.

I will post again after it's 100% .
[HTC One X] RomNoR:
Seems to flicker now, but less.

I don't know.

Who cares anyway, **** it...
[HTC One X] Mcyates:
When does your phone flicker? On the home screen? Anywhere?

Mine doesn't flicker on the home screen but does when typing on some apps.

It also flickers in google play when you click on an app and wait for it to load up, I think its something to do with the texture of the great though. My laptop flickers on some greay, especially on www.livescore.co.uk.
[HTC One X] RomNoR:
The snowy picture flickers on full brightness and some menus.

But i have to look hard now to see it, it was really bad earlier today right after the update and when the battery was low...
[HTC One X] optiknerv:
It seems well established that the screen doesn't flicker at first purchase but appears after everything from a few hours to a few days. If it were software that causes the flicker then surely a reset would fix the problem, taking it back to as the phone was received with no flicker. This is not true though. A reset later, and the flicker is still there.
[HTC One X] jonstatt:
In the 1.28 update, they made the screen brighter for any given light level in auto-brightness. Since a lot of people had flicker at the dimmest levels, I guess this will hide it for some users. The side effect of this change though, is that the LEDs at the bottom for the home/back/task buttons don't come on now until its too dark already!
[HTC One X] enyaj:
Screen distortion or whatever you call it appeared on my HOX earlier today when I was watching a downloaded video using stock player. I have been trying to replicate it to no avail. I don't know if I have to have it replaced or not. Damn!
[HTC One X] freemini:
That's 99% a software issue. It's just like corrupt or bad video drivers. Someone said it may be a bad chip, but it sounds like a SW issue to me.
[HTC One X] Sl1ced Bread:
I had this on 3 on 3 one x's in a row. Not just on video either, but also on the navigation bar ad browser menus.

I've now got a refund and Orange put me back on my old contract so I can upgrade whenever I like.

I might get another one if HTC announce a fix and the kind people here (who are far more trust worthy than HTC) confirm its resolved. But it’s actually quite a relief to get rid of it after all these problems and HTC’s arrogant approach to customer “care”.
[HTC One X] plunderclat:
I'm glad I found your comments. I'm onto my 3rd device with this identical issue. I can't specify that it's at "A" particular battery level, it just seems to be intermittently better/worse throughout the day.

Since I've had this one for 2 days now, I've always felt like it's something that is software related because the screen is excellent in every way, just as soon as it displays any greyish/darkish colours, it flickers like a fluorescent light when captured during video recording. It gives me a headache literally :eek: but because HTC and CPW keep telling me to just replace the device, I felt like I'd be a fool not too, because it is risky business, hoping that there'll be a fix, given the fact that there might NOT be, and I'm not savvy enough to confirm that this is a software related issue, but reading what you have to say clears a few things up for me. Logic points toward it being something that could be rectified via an update, although, wouldn't 1.28 have carried this fix???? who knows... but I'm leaning more, and more toward this being a problem that could be fixed via an OTA update. that's my humble opinion.

based on that, i'm keeping this one for another 25 days, that'll gimme 2 days to change the device until more info is acquired.One thing No one should do, and that's pay for a huge corporations mistakes!!! it's that kind of pressure that keeps them delivering a high standard.
[HTC One X] franjiepans:
I'm still waiting for dialaphone to send the prepaid envelope so I can get the phone replaced.

Anyone got any experience of how long this takes as its driving me crazy? I just want the handset replaced.
[HTC One X] culac:
Just picked up my 3rd One X. First one - dead pixel, second one - screen flicker. My hopes aren't high for the new one, especially as the serial is HT23 :(
[HTC One X] The-Last-Hylian:
Good luck!
[HTC One X] lawrence750:
got my 3rd one x today, ht24 device, as soon as i switched it on i saw some flickering.

it also has a dead pixel.

am going for yet another replacement.
[HTC One X] BustaVR6:
Having been keeping an eye on this thread I think I'll do a swap towards the end of the 28 days and then keep my fingers crossed that the SG3 is out within the following 28 days unless HTC admit and address the issues :/
[HTC One X] villandrew:
My second handset started flickering approximately 6 hours after first switch-on.

Surely it is a hardware issue if the screen takes time to start flickering?
[HTC One X] culac:
People making complaints to HTC may not make them take notice but if there are multiple handset returns occurring regularly then surely they will do something.

Looking at it from a single sale point of view, they surely have no profit margin from me personally as I've had 3 devices so far while I've only paid for one. If this is happening on a large scale they are in real trouble.
[HTC One X] lawrence750:
exactly. they were losing money already last quarter, so by having this many returned for stupid issues that they could have sorted out before sale (like dead pixels it simply takes an app to check for those) they will take notice and get this crap sorted quick. im on the third. soon to be the fourth. its ridiculous. but tbh, htc can suffer, not me.
[HTC One X] serialtoon:
Yea I got rid of mine. Good bye and good riddance. Never again htc, you lost a customer for life. Peace!
[HTC One X] BarryH_GEG:
I've seen two. Both were issue free. I kept the one with the cooler screen. The masses that aren't phone obsessed aren't as critical so the percentage of returns in the real world is probably not nearly as bad as from the anal retentive group here on XDA. A lot of friends have SAMOLED phones and I'd go nuts if I had to live with some of the color temperatures (blue, green, yellow, and purple) that they think are just fine. Most of my non-geek friends think of a phone as nothing more than an appliance. Do you fester over your mircowave of toaster? ;)
[HTC One X] serialtoon:
Well that's a stupid assumption to make. If I paid $660 for a toaster then of course I would be "festering" over issues. But when a company claims a device is their flagship , absolutely best product you can buy then of course I'll hold it to that. There are people who are ok with problematic devices they paid an arm and a leg for and then there are people who become upset at the price they paid for something that it obviously defective. I prefer to be the smart buyer who will not get ripped off and be ok with issues on a device I paid dearly for. To each their own I suppose, but what has worked for me is not to keep the device. Don't take it so personal friend. ;)
[HTC One X] nickporwal:
Second that.....i am paying such a huge amount for a phone then obviously we want the quality......this is our hard earned money and if we are spending it on something then we want almost flawless experience rather than flickering screen. Also we would be at peace if only HTC could make a statement whether these issues can be fixed via software update or not?
[HTC One X] :
Yellowish screen or anything? No?
[HTC One X] lawrence750:
Could you do me a huge favour pls, with the screen on auto brightness, watch the screen as you plugin a charger. Does it flicker as you plug it in?
[HTC One X] d33f:
Confirmed here indeed, phone has this from the beginning

Everytime i tried i see the flickering occurring
[HTC One X] vegetaleb:
Should we wait for ht25 series?

I am still on Sensation :o
[HTC One X] DazNoonan:
Will do this for you when I get home and let you know How I get one.

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Screen looks the same as the previous two. When I go into settings the background looks white. The only thing I've noticed with this one is sometimes when you lock the device the screen comes on, I had this with both the previous ones though and its nothing that's going to bug/annoy me and its likely a software issue.
[HTC One X] joplayer:
I saw somewhere on xda that Amazon had a batch of HT25 and they still can have this issue...

Looks like only next batch can be flicker free and I also saw on XDA that this new production shouldn't start before May so...
[HTC One X] hamdir:
are you guys intentionally neglecting the fact that many many users including my ring of 6 HOXes have no flicker!?

flex and ripple is a lot more worrying and more common!
[HTC One X] vegetaleb:
I posted a poll for flickering in the Q&A section to see the real percentage in the population, I hope even ''clean'' devices owners will vote too.

Should I do the same for flex Hamdir?
[HTC One X] combat goofwing:
I have started to get screen flicker but it seems its only when on auto brightness if I sent it to manual it goes away ,this could this be a light sensor or software issues ?

Sent from the Beast that is the HTC One X in white...... :-)
[HTC One X] fatalus:
I get it all the time in the gray backgrounds and it does not seem like a light sensor thing...Why flicker only in gray?It would flicker in all colors. Sth with voltage regulators thing may I suspect...I noticed also that it variates in intensity when the CPU seems to work heavier at the same time..
[HTC One X] vegetaleb:
I wonder if it will be there with a MIUI or cm9 rom...
[HTC One X] BarryH_GEG:
You totally missed the point I was making. You and a lot of people on XDA (including me) don't represent the masses that aren't as critical about their phones.

Here, there's talk of "HTC, never again"," "HTC is going to go out of business because of the One X," "I'm getting a SGS3," and "the return rate of the One X will kill HTC." The majority of issues that have caused XDA’rs to make those statements either aren't noticed by or don't bother the masses.

Here's a thread from the SGS2 forum. It was started the week after the phone was released (May 14, 2011). It discusses banding and color temperature issues with the SGS2's SAMOLED screen. Its 244 pages long, has had 345,477 views, and 2,433 replies, the last of which was yesterday. When it started people said “the SGS2 was going to fail,” “I’ll never buy another Samsung product,” and “Samsung was going to lose customers” for releasing such a ****ty flagship product. We know how that ended; they ended up selling 70MM without changing the design that caused the issue.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1079444&highlight=display

Here are some others that talk about major failings and disappointments:

Camera

222 pages started May 27, 2011. Last post today.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1098834&highlight=pink

Audio

94 pages started April 27, 2011. Last post April 8.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1053978&highlight=audio

The GN launch was a mess, the Asus Prime was a disaster, the Xperia S' display prompted a recall, and the SGS2 ICS update is a cluster. All of those high-end devices are priced similarly to the One X. Deserving and demanding perfection is certainly a valid claim; let me know when you find it because I'd most likely want to buy that device too. As long as the masses are easy (easier) to please all of the ranting and raving here isn’t going to change a thing. We, the perfectionists, make up less than 5% of total sales. I'm sure most of you have been in a carrier store and have seem the masses buying mobile phones. Do they (or the carrier sales people) look like perfectionists to you? And I'll bet anyone here that the SGS3 front page looks just like ours for the first couple of weeks after its launch. The GN's certainly did.
[HTC One X] mythamp:
Thanks for sharing the info everyone - I was about to make the move to one x from my iPhone 4. Though I have android devices, I thought the one-x was going to blow away my iPhone and was the logical upgrade. Now learning about its screen flickering and astonish-ly poor battery life, I am definitely avoiding the downgrade.
[HTC One X] lawrence750:
The battery life is fine.. if anything just as good as iPhone in standby life,if not better. when you're using the phones either one of them will run out quickly.

But enjoy being told what to do with the iPhone, even with some first batch issues like the flickering the one x still absolutely wipes the floor with the iPhone
[HTC One X] Tondern:
I don't think my HOX's got the worst flickering out there, and I seem to be unable to reproduce it at a consistent rate, although it seems to do it quite often when i run theQuadrant benchmark with the varying steps of grey to black background while the CPU is working hard.

One thing I noticed after some useage and the phone is relatively warm to the touch the flickering is almost completely gone, I don't know if going straight to a heavy duty app from idle mode, can factor in.
[HTC One X] BarryH_GEG:
That's a pretty myopic statement based on nothing but random posts on a forum. The flickering doesn't affect every phone and we don't know what percentage are affected. I've seen two and neither flickered. XDA probably represents 5% of the phones that are purchased and we don’t even know how many of that 5% flicker.

As for battery life if the iP5 has a 4.6" LCD display, quad-core processor, and isn't the size of a house to hold a 4000mAh battery it too won't perform as well as the iP4. To get similar battery life the iPad3 was made deeper and heavier to hold a larger battery. You can’t have it all.

I'm not thrilled with the battery life and am getting about 30% less use doing the same things I did on my SGS2 but it's the price you pay for trading features/performance for longevity. My battery life also seems to be getting better with additional charge cycles.

Keep in mind that none of the professional reviewers commented on display defects and most were satisfied with battery performance considering the features of the phone. You need to do what's best for you and if battery life is a priority you're probably right in skipping the One X.
[HTC One X] B_sHorTy:
allright guys. After reading the whole thread i see this is truely crazy how much people have this probem. Yesterday i got my second one. And with my second one i have the same issues...I am pretty sure it is a software related issue:

OR

The phone's kernel is ****ed up (battery issues, bad voltage on screen)

OR

there is something wrong with the G-sensor:

Go to your screen settings, and on the bottom of the you can calibrate your G-sensor. When you do this, you see both of the green dots go insane like the screen do!

What do you think guys?
[HTC One X] BarryH_GEG:
This could very well be. The Asus Prime is still running a GB kernel and the One X may be too (devs?). Nvidia's drivers are all proprietary so it's up to them to advance the kernel.

I just tried this and if by "green dots" you mean the levels mine just sit there stationary.

If the screen is consistently going crazy in certain phones maybe it's a shielding or interference issue? If during assembly shielding is either left out or improperly positioned it could be causing interference. The Asus Prime suffers from something similar. Certain devices have screen issues where others don't. I guess it could potentially be problems with individual Teg3 chips too. If the One XL doesn’t have any of these issues using the same display that could help narrow it down to Teg3 or something to do with its graphics support.
[HTC One X] twistedh:
Ive had the flicker issue since day one but ive kind of tried to ignore it, i'm not so impressed with it and I dont really want to exchange the handset now that ive had it for a few weeks so i guess im going to have to live with it - which i shouldnt.

This was my first htc and whilst the phone itself has impressed, theres some small niggling issues that have really let it down and shows how far it is from the big boys of the market such as samsung imo.

I hope software updates can resolve these issues, but either way, ill be putting heavy consideration into getting the gs3 when it comes out if htc dont pull their finger out.
[HTC One X] jonstatt:
There seem to be variants on this flicker issue.

For the first time today I saw my phone do it. It only does it on mid brightness and when high CPU activity is occuring at the same time. In fact it does it only on a very very narrow brightness range. I suspect all the phones do it but they all vary slightly whether it happens in dim brightness, mid or high. Also, how they are influenced by the CPU activity probably varies too.

It is probably what I suspected before, to do with voltage regulation.
[HTC One X] JimmyEatFood:
Mine did the g-sensor thing, and I could feel the phone shaking slightly when holding it.
[HTC One X] serialtoon:
I can understand your argument, but the point that I was making was that you are taking this way too personal. There are issues on all phones and decided that the annoying flicker issue was problematic for my eyes and I really don't feel that paying so much money for a device that has the said issue isn't worth it to me. The last time I purchased an HTC phone was a sensation and even that had its issues. If anything I'm sure a phone whore that I will retract my "never again" statement simply because if something is released by them with a fix, I might jump back onto the phone as I really liked it.
[HTC One X] louis.b:
Totally agree w you. If Samsung couldnt even get it right w their plastic phones, whose design they had kept the same as the SI, I can totally forgive HTC for making a drastic change in their design and hence manufacturing method (my cousin got a new SII on NYE and my gosh the phone is awful. It's slow, laggy, has bad camera, blue tinge, a total mess. And it's been out in the market for 2 yrs). I'm not very pleased since it seems like they rush it out a bit but I still make allowances for them given the abysmal financial result and the upcoming SIII and IP5. Of course consumers have the rights to demand excellent customer service. But there are issues that manufacturers cant address immediately because of reasons behind the scene and please keep in mind: this phone has not been out for 1 month so of course it's gonna take a while to iron out all the issues. And it's not like they totally ditch you after you buy the phone. They are willing to exchange the faulty handsets for you until you get a good one. I think they have been doing a pretty nice job given the lack of resources (HTC is VERY small compared to Samsung and Apple, something which a lot of ppl tend to overlook, and it's kinda sad to me).
[HTC One X] andpr3:
This is interesting. My phone also started flickering after the update - the first thing I noticed was heavy flickering in one of the apps (grey bars appearing, lines jumping/flickering etc). Thought it was just that one application and didn't really think more about it. Then I noticed what I would call backlight flickering - it is as if the light flickers in parts of the screen, and as if it tries to readjust/calibrate - it will go brighter/darker and then stabilize. And this happens when the screen is on manual mode (not auto light). It seems to happen more at lower light levels, but for me it also happens mostly on white background and on my homescreen (green, one of the HTC stock backgrounds). The problem I am talking about looks a bit like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3GierGP6a4&feature=youtu.be

However, I am not sure the problem is actually due to the update - maybe it is just a matter of time: it seems some phones only start exhibiting these issues after some days?

It also seems some people experience problems mainly on grey backgrounds, and some on white. The way the problems are described, it may even be two different issues? I don't see flickering in my empty app window for instance (this window is grey when no apps are open). I do see the grey color as a gradient, with a very bright grey in the middle (it's as if I can see light shining through there, but not on the rest of the screen - a bit like what is shown on this page, post by d33f: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1592157&page=12). Not sure if this is normal or not, but this is not the issue that is bothering me.
[HTC One X] plunderclat:
Down load "dead pixel detect and fix" from google play. Open it, choose the colours tab, and select 'grey'. This is the best way to replicate the issue! You'll also see that static images 'are' infact effected by the flicker issue. If the colour in a photograph is a grayish colour, it will flicker. Im onto my 4th white one x now, and quite frankly I'm gonna start invoicing htc with my fuel bill , and loss of earnings :S it could be software I guess, but the fact that some have it, and some don't leans toward it being hardware.

One thing none of you should do; assume is software, because I've a feeling you may be paying for this issue weeks down the line even they ask to retain it for a 2 week repair.

EEP GETTING AN EXCHANGE. that's my opinion, yet it wasn't before.
[HTC One X] fatalus:
Agree about the "dead piel detect and fix" test...It flickers really obviously in the grey colour!
[HTC One X] jonstatt:
Hmm...I don't get any flicker on that grey screen.

I get flicker on one specific brightness , and only while it is on auto-sensor, and only during high CPU usage. This happens when rendering a complicated web page with a white background, so I can just catch it. As soon as the web page is displayed, the flickering stops. Turn off auto-sensor, or go into a room with dimmer or brighter light, and no flicker at all.

This is why I suspect a lot more people have it than we realise. But unless someone happens to come across the very specific combination on their phone, of ambient light, display brightness setting and high CPU usage, they may never see it and vote that they don't have the problem.
[HTC One X] lawrence750:
Yeah I'd agree this is a very intermittent problem, but on my first one, it did develop into a permanent flicker after 5-6 days
[HTC One X] ste1164:
It's a real shame about the screen flicker :(. I had to get a refund for my one x and I would love another. It is the first android smartphone that has made me want to sell my iPhone. By the sounds of the ht23, ht24 and ht25 batch having it I won't be getting a new one for a while :(