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[Galaxy S III General] hefonthefjords:
Samoled displays are, according to the samsung source on the amoled wikipedia page, rated to run for 8 hours a day for 5 to 8 years before being reduced to half their brightness.

So basically you are not likely to own the phone long enough for "screen burn in" or more accurately the degradation of the organic componants of the display to actually become a legitimate problem.
[Galaxy S III General] gsw5700:
Remember that blue is the worse colour for burn-in, which its why Samsung use green colors in the notification bar. Try not to use blue if you can, if you get a ROM that uses blue, user a theme to change notification bar to green.

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[Galaxy S III General] renton82:
With stock rom it's impossible change the color of the status bar... i have root, is it possible to permanently hide the status bar maybe through an app?
[Galaxy S III General] TeamERA:
Apex launcher, actually several launchers let you hide the dock and status bar.
[Galaxy S III General] renton82:
Sure, i use nova launcher, but it hide the dock bar only in home and app drawer, for the rest of application like gmail, system setting and many other app the status bar is still here...
[Galaxy S III General] joelgrice:
I currently have a droid2 and use it as a bedside alarm clock. I use an app called night clock. it displays the time in red digital numbers like the old lcd alarm clocks. it stays on all night while in my dock.

does this mean I can't or shouldn't use my GS3 as a bedside clock?
[Galaxy S III General] renton82:
I suggest you no...
[Galaxy S III General] krico:
Actually, you might be alright using the bedside clock app because the numbers are always changing.
[Galaxy S III General] gevans35:
In car navigation. My Galaxy S2 has a burnt-in image of Sygic's speed limit indication. The main reason I have the phone is for navigation and the screen can be on for five hours continuously.
[Galaxy S III General] Vertron:
It would be good if someone implemented an auto hide feature to the status bar.

So it's always hidden in all apps and if you want check your notifications or anything just pulling down from the top of the screen would make it appear, and if you got a text message or something the status will unhide itself for a short time so you can see a preview, then hide itself again.
[Galaxy S III General] esist:
Exactly. My first thought when I saw this thread was "And? This is not news." This is not about the GS3, its about AMOLED, so it was already known it would suffer from some screen burn-in.

Very good idea. I have always thought this. There are third party launchers that can do this, so why doesn't the stock? Samsung already designed TouchWiz to take advantage of the characteristics of AMOLED (e.g. menu backgrounds were always black, even before that become standard in ICS) so why haven't they designed at least an option to help avoid burn-in.

What I'd like would be the notification bar to be transparent, and to scroll slowly across the screen.

But even being transparent would probably suffice: the colours of the wallpaper (since I'm guessing few people have pitch black ones) would heavily reduce the high contrast between the burnt in battery icon etc., and its background. Right now such small amounts of the notification bar are often lit, that it just exacerbates the burn-in issue by making it more visible.

In any case, having gone from a Galaxy S (which did have burn in), to an Xperia Neo, to an S3, I can safely say, the burn in is a small price to pay. The price, is the big price to pay :P
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Its a well known fact that OLED screens get screen burn. Evidence not required. Entire thread not required
[Galaxy S III General] Aimara:
isnt screen burn cause by a still picture ? thats why your computer has screen savers also when using the phone , the screen picture is always moving , does it have a effect ?
[Galaxy S III General] Tinderbox (UK):
You can set go launcher to hide the status bar, I have been using it to do just that on my note for a couple of months as i did not want to get burn-in from it.

John.
[Galaxy S III General] daemonic3:
Yes, it definitely will burn in

I definitely noticed screen burn recently when running some things with all-white screens. I could see the outline of the maximized desk clock, which I have been using at night (not every night though) for about 1.5 months. I was setting it to max brightness to double as a nightlight for the room. The noticeable burn-in is in the clock digits, and the 6 icons across the bottom (in horizontal orientation). The burned symptom is that on a white screen (like a blank start page in browser, for example), the burned areas appears slightly yellowish.

I'm pretty bummed. I don't know if I would have left it at auto-brightness (so that it was very dim in a dark room) if the burn-in would have occurred. Now, I will never find out, but I am not using the maximized desk clock that stays on anymore.
[Galaxy S III General] nexusino:
Previously I had the Samsung Wave, which had screen burn in notification area,

Amoled can suffer from screen burn-in.Using the minimum brightness or turn auto-brightness on, or used often device to be rotated into landscape mode it can help prevent screen burn-in efect.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
I think this post by chopper_the_dog is valid for the SGS3's screen as well (well, for anything but the navbar)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27350974&postcount=4
[Galaxy S III General] NIK516:
If you know anything about phones and screen tech you won't be surprised the gs3 gets burn in .... also it won't happen to regular users.
[Galaxy S III General] dikime:
Since I change phones every year (I'm addicted, I know), I've happened to use all consecutive Galaxy S models. When the time comes for an upgrade, I have to get as much as possible from my old phone, so I keep it in pristine condition during my usage period. That inclueds taking care for the screen in few simple steps:

Use minimum brightness as much as possible. Even in broad daylight, if able.

Hide the statusbar whenever I can (Launcher + Root app for hiding it).

Use often landscape, both 90 and 270 turn, alternating between these two.

Avoid static images as though they're poisonous. Really, when I hear someone using 600$ phone for a CLOCK, my heart aches.

Use an app to lock the screen with tap/gesture as much as possible (the app is needed to save button clicks).

Follow this and you won't have burn-in even after 3 years of usage.
[Galaxy S III General] Jay Ssj:
What's a screen burn?
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
A screen burn was a term only applicable to LCD screens. People like to use word so wildly and claim LED/AMOLED screens burn-in when they don't. You can think of it as reverse led fatigue (as explained by chopper_the_dog in the post I linked to). The leds that make up say the keyboard are burning brighter than the ones that make up the background so that's why they sometimes tend to stick.
[Galaxy S III General] ABC_Universal:
I had screen burnt in S2 after some 10 months. Samsung replaced the screen as well as the slightly scratched front plate without any charge, and did it within 2 hours of my arrival at the service center (l left for lunch and they called me to pickup before I finished). So I don't worry any bit about screen burnt in S3. Actually I'd like to see some before the warranty expires. :p
[Galaxy S III General] Hunt3r.j2:
Don't be ridiculous. Burn in on AMOLED displays can happen, and it's permanent. The only way you can get rid of burn-in is by putting more current to it, or by aging all the other pixels.
[Galaxy S III General] Steve_max:
On an AMOLED screen, individual (sub) pixels have a natural brightness decay. This decay rate depends on usage (and, unfortunately, on colour). So, the effect is the opposite of what you say: if you keep a white square on the centre of your (black) screen for a very long time, then switch to a white screen, you'll see that square darker than the rest. Also, the three subpixels have different rates, so (since the blue subpixels tend to decay first) the image will become progressively warmer. This is inevitable, just like in plasma screens, and it's not a problem on LCDs (both regular or with LED backlight).

The question is not if this process happens: it DOES happen, period. The question is whether it happens fast enough to be a problem over the phones' expected 2-3 year lifetime, with regular usage. Looks like it doesn't, at least if you keep the brightness down and don't keep the screen on all the time with static elements.
[Galaxy S III General] plunderclat:
Samsung galaxy s3, 3 months old. Lines from various widgets burned into the screen. My 4 galaxy notes where just as much a dissapointment. Garbage, in my opinion, which is a shame, cos its a class phone, but my one x is still pristine, since buying.

**** Samsung, they're ignorant, and don't see our complaints as 'credible' because we aren't an official source :P
[Galaxy S III General] rlorange:
correct term should be pixel fade as nothing is burning in rather pixels fading in brightened at different rates from uneven use. Blue first
[Galaxy S III General] SRZ1977:
Anyone have any updates on this issue? I am trying to decide between the EVO LTE and GS3. I went into a Sprint store today too look at both phones. There was a blue and white GS3 on display and they both had terrible burn-in/pixel fade. It looks like the weather panel and lower row of icons was marked on the screens. I also checked out the EVO and the screen was basically pristine and bright. I would like to use the phone for navigation (long hours of on time) and possibly use as a clock at night, music, and video player. I am guessing all of these things will leave the screen on for a substantial period of time. Any thoughts on this?
[Galaxy S III General] Nosterius:
Static images are not the best thing for both of your choice... probably the gs3 got screen burn because it was a demo model and the screen was settled on always on... I own mine since 4 months and I reach 5-6 hours of screen usage every 2 days and my screen is perfect :) just don't use it as a clock :thumbup:

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[Galaxy S III General] drknezz:
Using a screen tester off the Play Store, I've got a mild screen burn where my notification bar always is, only just noticeable though and only using this app.

Had my S3 for 6 months now but my old s1 after over 2yrs is really noticeable on white screens.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] SRZ1977:
Alright, thanks for the help. It almost seems like this is inevitable since the notification bar is always running at the top. I like to keep my phones for about 1.5-2 years before selling or upgrading, so I'll have to decide what to do on this issue.
[Galaxy S III General] renton82:
I have a very very very slightly noticeable burn in where the status bar is on but only with red background and even if i always hide the status bar with nova launcher since i bought the phone (in july). Now i use gmd control for always hidng the status bar (nova can hide the status bar only in homescreen, gmd can hide it everywhere) and i'm trying to solve this minor issue with burn-in savior downloaded fron play store...

I will not buy an amoled screen anymore! Now i'm planning to buy a similar phone with lcd screen like htc one x + or lg optimus g!
[Galaxy S III General] alias_neo:
The shop model may have been suffering from an alternative effect, after my GS2 I bought a Galaxy Note that had been on shop window display in a hot, sunny country.

The information on the Samsung screen protector (similar to this had been burned into the display, even though the device had never been turned on.

It's clear to me that sunlight falling on the AMOLED screen has the same effect or wearing out the display as running the display itself does.

Basically, the areas of the screen protected by the text and images on the screen protector had been less worn out by sunlight and lit up brighter than the rest of the screen.

I'm happy to say, that after my S2 which suffered badly, and an appalling start with the Note, which I swapped for a different one the next day after realising the problem, my S3 had done fantastically well and even using the built in alarm clock while in my dock at night, I can / have see(n) no such issues so far with my S3.
[Galaxy S III General] pwhooftman:
I used my S3 for navigation for 18 days this summer for approx 5 hours a day, always in landscape 90 degr. and max brightness (sunny days) . The black statusbar in Navigon left a white bar at the right edge of my screen, visible as i type this message . Or better, the rest of the screen became more yellow. Not a great deal, but its visible on white backgrounds.
[Galaxy S III General] Infinite Jest:
Do you know the pixel height of the notification bar? I received a refurbished warranty replacement and it has a a bit of the bright pixel issue on the bar. I'd like to try to nip this issue in the bud to at least minimize its effect. This will probably be the last AMOLED phone I buy unless this (and other variation issues in the screen) gets addressed.
[Galaxy S III General] barne19801:
This a bothers me a lot, probably shouldn't but it does. I have an app from the play store that I run to light up the notification area, I think the pixel height is 48 but I'm not certain. I had seen this mentioned about the nexus notification bar so that's what I set it to.
[Galaxy S III General] renton82:
The notification bar is 49 pixel, the app is burn in savior
[Galaxy S III General] barne19801:
Thank you good man!
[Galaxy S III General] squeeish:
I only just noticed the screen burn in on my S3. There's a slight image of a Whatsapp chat screen, complete with my contact's name. :eek:

I downloaded a couple of apps that claim to fix the burn in. Will run it over night and see how things go.
[Galaxy S III General] RKitchUK:
What could an app do to fix screen burn in? I know u can potentially fix dead pixels but not burn in. Hope it fixes it for you :victory:
[Galaxy S III General] Meraklis56:
the same as a fixer for a plasma tv.It changes the pixels so fast,as much as the refresh rate is,claiming to fix the burn in.
[Galaxy S III General] chickenmon:
I got burned

My S3 has pretty noticeable burn in from using google maps a couple hours a day for the past year.
[Galaxy S III General] ruggs1234:
I've owned my S3 for 6 months and I don't use automatic brightness (its left turned up full).

The notifications bar has left a clear imprint on the screen. Watching a video with a light scene clearly shows where the notification bar is. (When the screen is rotated the imprint is vertically on the left..obviously)

As I run with full brightness I understand I may have contributed to the problem.....
[Galaxy S III General] rayiskon:
...and still samsung forces crappy amoled technology
[Galaxy S III General] 30simranit:
Thanks for posting your experience....I assume it as a warning ...neva run your phone on full brightness:eek:
[Galaxy S III General] gsw5700:
Use auto brightness, turn the screen off when using navigation in the car when you don't need to see the map, don't use blue icons in the status bar

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[Galaxy S III General] Mebuca:
Hey guys, I'm new here. Can someone explain what a screen burn is or give an example please :)
[Galaxy S III General] qtwrk:
Like if you display some pictures long enough, you will see a ghost image while you change the screen displaying, this is "burn in "

Generally, it's most likely in status bar (because something like signal, clock and battery always display in same place )

And virtual on screen button like Galaxy Nexus.
[Galaxy S III General] Madarox:
Had my GS3 for 8 months so far and the screen is perfect,I use auto brightness.I did change themes a few times but most of the time I was using the stock touchwiz theme.
[Galaxy S III General] mcrisa:
I own a SGS III since 6 months, and just realized I'm suffering from burn-in.

On the top of the screen there's a ghost image of the Beautiful Widget widget I used for a while. It is only noticeable when the screen is fully light-colored, therefore is not very annoying. But yes, the burn-in is there.

For reference, I use fixed brightness at about 1/3 of the slider (so quite low).

But it might be that the burn-in happened during a night, a couple of months ago, when the phone froze on its docking bay being lit until the morning, when I woke up.

But i realized I'm suffering from burn-in only recently, so can't tell if this is the real reason for the burn-in.
[Galaxy S III General] nolovelust:
I have had screen burn issue with s3 and nexus s. Both were at same place, android top taskbar. Both was fixed by samsung without no question asked. Both phones were rooted. Good thing about repair whole front cover gets replaced.

Funny thing is, while nexus s started after 1.5 years, s3 started to get it after 6 months!
[Galaxy S III General] cris35soon:
darkness issue

ive got an issue where my wallpaper gets darker at the top & bottom off the screen.altering brightness doesnt change the darkness at the points of issue.wondering if ive got a burning issue or if ive altered a setting somewhere.
[Galaxy S III General] UndCon:
Burn in proof

undcon//.//com/?attachment_id=2975

(remove // due to less than 10 posts in forum I cannot link)

Here is my screen after playing Ingress for less than a year.

The COMM text is from Ingress if you do not know...

To kill some of your ideas:

I have 2 phones - 1 for work and 1 for private use

I do not use any of them 8+ hours a day (screen turned off most of the time)

I play ingress less than 10 hours a week as I have a family (no spare time)

It is persistent from reboot.

//UndCon
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bamfart:
Would be awesome and would look beautiful.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Remoteconcern:
There is already a theme, you'll be happy to know. Search or look for ghost theme. Looks nice !

Edit: just saw thread title. Never mind, sorry.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eman3316@optonline.net:
Wouldn't it make more sense to post this in the Ghost thread and ask the dev if he can make a version for that Rom?
[HTC Wildfire S] einstein.frat:
I'm still here, so I'm going to use this account now cause my other 2 are disabled. :eek:

Anyone interested in this ?
[HTC Wildfire S] chaplinb:
Yaaayy!

-Downloading-
[HTC Wildfire S] csoulr666:
Welcome back......waiting for your next rom release
[HTC Wildfire S] Cold Ice:
Can you Make that ROM without OC please? My phone dont like OC :)
[HTC Wildfire S] davidang:
welcome back i made the rom to the development section sorry for not asking yr permission but i gave credits to u
[HTC Wildfire S] cpie20:
Welcome Back! :D
[HTC Wildfire S] davidang:
hope u could port touchwiz for y next rom
[HTC Wildfire S] kantry123:
welcome back....!
[HTC Wildfire S] einstein.frat:
thanks guys :). If your phone dont like oc edit with notepad or ++ in system/etc/init.d folder file svolt** change 787*** to 600000.
[HTC Wildfire S] asdot:
Welcome back.

Btw, I prefer the name Jikantaru :D I knew that name before I have WFS :D

Sent from MARVEL
[HTC Wildfire S] junxracr:
Welcome back and thanks again for your awesome kernels.
[HTC Wildfire S] eoghan2t7:
Can someone reupload this please media fire is on a refreshing mood when I click download :(

Edit: never mind I added it to my account and now its downloading.
[HTC Wildfire S] rezo609:
Welcome back man, it was a disaster after you left for a while.:D

-rezo609
[HTC Wildfire S] eoghan2t7:
Ok I flashed this rom last night and for some reason it fails to boot at first I thought it was the overclocking script so I removed that w but still no boot, I then flashed my cm7 kernel and straight away I had it booting any ideas guys?
[HTC Wildfire S] einstein.frat:
maybe you need to update your radio or hboot from new ruu, dunno.
[HTC Wildfire S] eoghan2t7:
I already have the updated radio and hboot when I flashed the latest ruu 2 days ago I'm confused to your old roms boot ok but not this one lol
[HTC Wildfire S] aigaming:
Welcome back Jika ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] klacenas:
glad to know a good developer is back :)

hope you can work on sense 4.0, wfs is craving for a fully functional ics.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] BuddyJoe83:
After using the new SGTab 2 7" I have experiencing the touchscreen is unresponsive in some occasions.

For example closing the tabs in the brrowser on the X mark is very hard, both in the stock browser and Chrome.

When I try to clear my mssage in the bottom right corner, it also doesn't recognize my touch on various occasions.

It seems to me that along the edges of the screen, the touches are harder to recognize. Have any of you recognized this problem aswell?

After reading a review on Techradar.com, this passage stood out for me:

''Disappointingly, we found the touchscreen experience to be a little sub-par. The sensitivity of the display was lower than we expected, and we found it hard to register presses on small parts of the browser, such as links, and the close tab button.''
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] bram2202:
I encountered the same fault/defect on my Tab2 10.1

especially on small objects,

but it seems not to be constant.

meaning it generally works, but sometime i have to press multiple times to activate the selected button or object.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] matt30:
I found that fingerprints really lower the sensitivity of the screen. If you wipe off the screen after prolonged use, the touch experience will be much better. I verified this using a touch recognition program.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] BuddyJoe83:
Yeah I wipe and I wipe haha..on all my devices. But it seems worse on this device, compared to all others even though I clean very often.

Cheers for your suggestion though :)
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] ChanceOfChange:
thats true

some times happens to me too in youte app, i notice it only there still.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] crimson12:
Same thing here, it gets incredibly frustrating for me. It's very noticeable trying to close a tab.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] adix82:
Is it a hardware or software issue?
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] BuddyJoe83:
Software...lately it doesn't happen anymore..on and off
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] Ryanscool:
Got mine today. And ive been fine, then again i have a crappy screen protector lol.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] adix82:
After rooting and flash a custom rom on p5100, everything is OK. Become responsive. So I believe Samsung touchwiz on ics might be the cause of the problem.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] drwierdo:
Yeah me too not satisfied with the samsung touch wiz...but I don't think I am having problem with touch screen...though it is not as smooth as with iPhone 4...
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] mrbkkt1:
Do you have a screen protector on? Mine was crappy with it on, so i removed it.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] Yenupuri:
Had this problem when I was on Stock. Not dead touch points but it was more like an inability to sense my touch due to lag due to touchwiz. Changing to nova launcher helped... And then.... Tried CM9 rom and all is well. Not sure if you wanna take that route but for me... It worked. I am a happy camper!
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] zstatman:
Is there a way to calibrate the screen on the T2 10.1?
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] chogau1:
After 10 minutes of reckless racing 2, the screen gets unresponsive, i think it might be something to do with the battery or cpu getting hot, I am using the stock modified rom from metallice
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoomfire:
I have ssamsung galaxy fit s5670 and i installed CW mod.how to remove it and restore my phone to original one?? my phone is getting hanged a lot and recently i am not able to use the phone if my SD card is inserted.So i feel Clockwork mod is the problem.How to remove it and restore everything to fresh and original??
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Obey138:
CWM is not the problem. The problem is a rom you installed.

EDIT: Anyway, if you didn`t installed/flashed any new rom, CWM shouldn`t be the problem. Maybe delete all apps.

Message provided to you by XDA Premium app installed on my Samsung Galaxy Mini GT-S5570 with DreamW-V6.2 (with CM7) ROM on board.