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[Galaxy S I9000 General] BlueFlame4:
Hey everyone!

Yesterday I noticed a blue bar at the top of my screen. It's my statusbar which has burned into my display. If I open a complete white screen, it's clearly visible (one can even see the clock, lol).

I didn't use my phone excessively, didn't use it as a night clock or something, I just used it actively ~3 hours a day.

I'm thinking about contacting Samsung as I bought it on 2nd March 2011 - so AFAIK I should still have warranty on it. I'm now asking myself what Samsung would do - either repairing it (I don't think so) or sending me a new device? I'm a bit afraid that they will send me a i9001 since the i9000 is not manufactured anymore.

Has anybody else experienced similar problems with AMOLEDs from Samsung and can tell me something about their warranty regulations?

Best Regards and thanks in advance, guys!

Blue
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AlwaysDroid:
I have not had this problem and my sgs is 2 years old. And I doubt that you will get a new one because it is not made anyway. They will probably just repair it.

Good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ballsofsteel:
The problem is less pronounced with the sgs 1 compared to the sgs 2 but it is definitely there. The status bar displays the same stuff all of the time and it is prone to screen burn in . Try one of the amoled burn in apps on the market and see if they help your device or not. They didnt remove the problem entirely but at least I don't get this obvious blue line across the top of my screen when I watch videos or do anything else in landscape.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gcuchiha:
I've got the exact same problem . Its mostly on the top left of the screen(status bar area) and very light bluish tint throughout the status bar. Doesn't bother me too much though.

BTW I use my phone a lot.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BlueFlame4:
The point is that I read a lot of scripts and books on my screen and thus the blue bar is quite annoying. What do I have to consider when I send it back to Samsung?

My idea was to flash a stock ROM from sammobile and wipe everything. Do I have to do more (e.g. downgrade Bootloader or something)?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kzkan:
I havent't faced any issue like this
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 2Pietjuh2:
I really doubt samsung will do anything about it.. They most likely sent it back as "everything is fine" i think it's very rare they switch screens (or phones). I think it's just user traces...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BlueFlame4:
Well, actually it's not just a trace from usage. If I cracked my display or something similar, THAT would be a usage trace. I see what I can do... Not sure though if I should really send it back since I love my i9000 ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] slaphead20:
Blue is known to be the worst color for screen burn in on amoled, which begs the question....why blue ics theme Samsung? :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DanielSanchez:
Dammit, my second i9000 got this 2. It ran stock for my friend, and the menu icons like contacts, messaging, browser and apps got burnt in... it's unbearable.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ballsofsteel:
Possibly a defective unit? Under normal circumstances, in no way should this happen unless you leave the screen on at high brightness displaying the same stuff for an extended period of time.

I max out the brightness of my SGS since day 1 and I only notice burn in on the status bar. Although I admit, I have changed from Touchwiz launcher to launcher pro, adw ex, go, zeam, apex, nova, lightning, back to zeam and now Apex, so the icons on my launchers and home screens have shifted quite a bit in position thus eliminating the possibility of burn in. You do have to make sure that you do not display the same stuff for an extended period of time using OLED displays.
[Android General] intaglioman:
Hi guys,

I recently went onto a trip to Hong Kong; Whilst I was there I visited a few different companies for example Deal Extreme (My girlfriend sells USB gadgets etc online)

So we looked at a range of Android phones they had Everything from Galaxy S3s BUT they had some "ACM" phones which were DIRECT copies of many phones, S3s and they guy showed us the difference and there was almost nil. Even the battery was the same.

I'm wondering how if possible it is to flash ROMs to these phones, I dont want to buy one and not be able to flash a ROM :laugh:

I'm going back out there soon so I'd like to know ASAP
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] narutofen:
I got a new ACME TB02 tablet with Allwiner A10 chip and after many trys to root it i unroot it with DooMLoRD_v1_UNROOTING i get a total internal memory for app install 0.00 b :crying: please somebody help me to fix this problem i tell me how to root that device before that i have a 1.75 gb of memory i think that i have a problem with /data partition but i can't fix it :(

Sorry for my bad english
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] username_lt:
Did you tried factory reset? Also I discovered that this tablet was rooted by acme. You didn't have to root... You can access system files via root explorer :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] dpham00:
My Verizon GS3 got over 130°F this morning. What is the safe # for it to hit before damage?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jamcar:
In the palm pre safe was 125 degrees F
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] vdChild:
That would be killing ur battery. Personally I'd swap. Coming from rezound alloy had that issue. I don't know bout gs3 but , that seems awfully hot.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] d1ez3:
how did you manage that? when my phone hits 100 it feels like its burning my hands
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] JohnM:
That's 54 degrees Celsius! I'm surprised your battery hasn't melted and your phone's components haven't been damaged yet.

I'm pretty sure after 40-something celsius it starts to become unsafe for the device.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] yokken:
I'm sure phone CPUs have failsafe measures to prevent from melting in your hand. That said, I've never hit over 105F, and that was hot. You probably have a defective device. What were you doing at the time, besides charging? Charging does increase the temperature quite a bit sometimes, but not that much.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] androidaddict23:
I agree mines never got over 107 , but it dose at times get hotter than it feels.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] turbosrrgood:
Mine got up close to that just today, I was streaming pandora over bluetooth in the heat with a case on. And browsing. Not really worried about, they should be able to survive temperatures far higher than that.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] LRT:
Mine gets to around 110°F when using the video camera after 15 mins. It went as high as 116°F the other day
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] tonictonic:
I don't know if internal memory has the same issue but when I'm writing lots of data to my sdcard the card itself can get incredibly hot.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] El Nivek:
Its probably damaged already, if you want a safe # it would be 140° F but that's dangerously close.

Sent from my iPhone
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jaytxvo:
Lately my phone has started to get warm too. Just browsing and even screen off in my pocket at around 95f... Not sure what caused it.

Thinking of doing a factory wipe and flashing rom again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jaytxvo:
I figured out the issue... It was the faux 004 kernel that made my phone hot. Flashed to 002 and all is good.
[Thunderbolt General] jimmyco2008:
Given the Thunderbolt is getting out-of-date more or less, and that Verizon has ditched upgrading AND keeping unlimited data, where do you stand?
[Thunderbolt General] OffcerClancy:
What does "upgrade" mean for a current 4g customer - any change to any new phone? What about Sprint's unlimited plan? Why aren't more people talking about that as an option?
[Thunderbolt General] disconnecktie:
Sprint has crap coverage in my area and who wants a phone that barely works indoors. Plus they throttle their unlimited users.
[Thunderbolt General] jimmyco2008:
Upgrade as in upgrade through Verizon, sign a two year contract, thereby sacrificing unlimited data.

+1 Sprint sucks, at least until they have a nationwide LTE network...then..maybe.
[Thunderbolt General] disconnecktie:
Im not going to upgrade through Verizon. My wife doesn't even want to lose unlimited data. Plus their new plan will cost us $40 more a month.
[Thunderbolt General] jimmyco2008:
More power to ya, we're in the same boat.
[Thunderbolt General] gcodori:
I will wait a year or so and upgrade to the Sammy S3 or the vigor/Tbolt 2 once they are slightly less new. I'll pay less for them on my own and keep unlimited. Losing unlimited is not worth getting the latest toy. The current tbolt is not bad with a new rom loaded.
[Thunderbolt General] OffcerClancy:
This is bull****! How is that an "upgrade", because I continue my existing service for an additional term? Upgrade implies an improvement in some manner. What's the improvement- my new phone? That characterization is subjective at best. Bastards! Sons'a *****es!
[Thunderbolt General] ThunderTech:
I'm waiting for a Nexus phone that I can purchase directly thru the Google Play Store. However, I doubt Google will be able to develop a CDMA phone without Verizon or Sprints collaboration. I don't want to give up my unlimited data plan because I use 20gb a month streaming video and music.
[Thunderbolt General] jimmyco2008:
Yeah I got pretty excited when I saw the GalNex on Google Play for a reasonable what, $400? And then I saw the HSPA.
[Thunderbolt General] ATHORNFAM2:
I plan on keeping my plan at any cost
[Thunderbolt General] robdec17:
Once my contract is up I will sell my bolt and ditch Verizon. I will buy another phone outright then go with straight talk.
[Thunderbolt General] xs11e:
I'm up for renewal in about never, so I'll keep the T'bolt and see what the developers do with ICS and JB and Sense 4.x (VZW has already said ICS will come ONLY with Sense 3.x so I'll skip the official ICS release) and make any decision later.
[Thunderbolt General] Cornflakius:
Probably just stick with them and hope that they'll make some change in the near future about upgrading.
[Thunderbolt General] trkeyser:
Same here. I don't mind the Tbolt with a custom ROM and having it with unlimited data is better for me than having the latest piece of hardware. It's also nice to know that replacement parts for this phone are fairly inexpensive.
[Thunderbolt General] mmarcz:
Go on www.cowboom.com and buy a good condition pre-owned phone. I've got my eye on the rezound if my Tbolt fails.

mmarcz
[Thunderbolt General] Dannar:
Is there a viable prepaid market for smart phones? Guess if there is, you'd be stuck with crap phones...

I'll see what Verizon does when upgrade time comes. But I'm not sure what my other options are...

Duely blundered from my thunderdolt
[Thunderbolt General] recDNA:
My fear is if I pay $650 for a razr maxx vzw will take my unlimited data away anyway. A phone rep told me all unlimited data plans will be taken away in "a year".
[Thunderbolt General] sammyfuego:
So how does it work, is the only way to get a new phone and keep unlimited to buy used or at full price? Or would upgrading at like best buy mobile be any different than upgrading directly through Verizon?
[Thunderbolt General] recDNA:
Yes, u must pay full price or used. Some have claimed they were able to upgrade and keep data plan in vzw website but others have denied it.
[Thunderbolt General] donnyp1:
I was just told former alltel customers, such as myself, will be forced off their plans april 2013. Kinda wonder how that affects me as i upgraded last december to the tbolt, couldnt resist the price.
[Thunderbolt General] OffcerClancy:
I talked to an acquaintance who just "upgraded" to some LG piece of ****, lost unlimited, and was rewarded for his years of customer loyalty with 6 gig to be spread over 3 phones as he sees fit. 2 gig per phone? Really? That is is such an ass ****ing. With no reach-around I might add.
[Thunderbolt General] recDNA:
I think that will apply to everyone.
[Thunderbolt General] arikinthecity:
My plan is to sell my Verizon unlimited plan and phone number to someone then I'm going to get a plain basic phone just for voice, a gps for my car and a laptop with 4g data card for email and work. Screw the smart phones and the lack of upgrades and rooting and no ics and grandfathering my data and extended batteries. F--k you Verizon screw you apple screw android and apps and the market place and the app store I'm sick of it all
[Thunderbolt General] jimmyco2008:
April 2013? That's soon!

If it applies to everyone, I'm out, and to be safe, I'm definitely not renewing my contract, which has been up for a few months now.. I think the last of our phones leaves contract 2/22/12, so we are probably going to bail. Haha I have a feeling 2013 is going to be a very good year for Sprint.
[Thunderbolt General] TehFlyingIndian:
I just got my bolt in February for $25 from Best Buy. If Verizon forces me off, I'll be more than a little peeved and would definitely consider switching to Sprint. They just don't have great coverage in South Dakota/Nebraska, though...
[Thunderbolt General] jimmyco2008:
Yeah that's the thing, I'll be losing that coverage....Like I said, I won't leave if they don't "force" me to.
[Thunderbolt General] wyattn:
That's probably the biggest thing for me. I spend probably 1/4 of my time in areas where only Verizon goes (and on 1x at that!) ... so dropping over to AT&T or one of the other providers is kind of a big hit for me. That and they've sold me on the LTE ... I'm addicted to the speed like a hooker is to crack. I know VZW is the blocker for advancement of our updates at this point and that's a pretty hard load of crap to swallow. I also find it interesting that it looks like the same radio package for the Galaxy Nexus on ICS is the same one they are using on JB ... so maybe that means that when VZW/HTC finally get around to giving us our mostly melted ICS, we'll have a good path forward for JB.
[Thunderbolt General] arikinthecity:
Oh and screw the bulls--t small screen and touch keyboard and locked ruu and all of it. Even a 12 inch laptop or ultrabook is a 1000 times more productive than any smart phone will ever be.
[Thunderbolt General] buton2:
Well..

My tbolt will be with me for a long time, I can't live with without unlimited data and buying a 500 phone is not an option...
[Thunderbolt General] driodman98:
Probably end up leaving if they make me give up unlimited data. Not too sure about sprint as they have the worse customer service. AT&T is not an option because they claim I owe them money. So I will look for something else. I just dont understand how they justify what they are doing it, all because they dont want to upgrade their network.
[Thunderbolt General] Crewski:
I'm going to hold onto my Thunderbolt for a while....then once both me and my wife are off contract it'll be time to shop around and see what else is out there. I don't use all that much data, but when I do its downloading ROMS and such which I can easily do on wifi if need be. The upgrade fee is what really gets me going.
[Thunderbolt General] -SmithTech-:
A different option

You left out take them to court for the missing memory and get a free S3 and 6 months of free service.

It cost me 22.50 to file a small claim at the local county court house. It was well worth the time and effort.
[Thunderbolt General] daniel178:
Will I still be able to keep my same plan (unlimited data) once I'm eligible for a new phone upgrade and upgrade the phone?
[Thunderbolt General] disconnecktie:
What are talking about file a claim for what?
[Thunderbolt General] pray59:
I paid full price for a Galaxy S3 as I was not eligible for discount upgrade from my Bolt till November, but wanted to have ICS and keep unlimited data. Had I known when I prepaid that Verizon was gonna ship locked bootloaders, I would not have upgraded.

I'm keeping my Bolt to play with as a wifi only device, and still hope for ICS to be pushed, but when my unlimited data runs out I'm done with Verizon and their locked bootloader bloatware crippled devices. I will never let myself get caught up in the hype and pre-order anything from anyone ever again.

That was just plain crooked of Verizon to allow option to keep your unlimited plan by upgrading, then offer pre-order phones that every other provider sold unlocked, then on shipping day discover Samsung offers an unlocked developer edition for Verizon. I've encountered plenty of bait and switch schemes before but this was the most underhanded, and cost them my customer loyalty since 1998.
[Thunderbolt General] geoff5093:
There were posts from all over news sites saying how the Verizon will have a locked bootloader.
[Thunderbolt General] unctucker:
There going to have a locked bootloader on all there devices?
[Thunderbolt General] jimmyco2008:
+1, what about a claim? You filed a claim in small claims court for $23 and Verizon just said f*** it, not worth the legal fees, here's 6 months of service and a Galaxy S III, on us.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm...........
[Thunderbolt General] disconnecktie:
That's what I want to know. What was the claim for?
[Thunderbolt General] WalkerGFX:
We are hoping to keep our Thunderbolts as long as we can and of course keep our Unlimited data as long as possible as well.
[Thunderbolt General] carstairs:
Although accelerated by a terrible customer service experience that got me to terminate my contract, I would have left Verizon at the end of my contract anyway. I don't need unlimited data, even if it's nice to have, I realistically can live comfortably on 4-5 gigs a month assuming that I have Wifi at my home base. Ultimately, as a young person whose home and college are both in major metropolitan areas, I can save money and still get good service by going prepaid. $30 a month on T-Mobile for 5 gigs until I decide to change at no penalty, Google Voice to keep my number and not worry about minutes (though as a young person, I use maybe 5 minutes a month).

The only thing I'll miss is my little Bolt's kickstand and the "OMG WHAT IS THAT" reactions it would get from people.
[Thunderbolt General] zeeza57:
Just read that ATT is to power down their 2G service by 2017 and Verizon will Shut down remaining Alltel towers by 4/ 2013. We are all going to loose our unlimited plans on all companies over the next couple years . No more basic dumb phone network, just all 4G+ goodness. Is that why Verizon gives us unlimited talk and text with our new Data plans? The future is booming and we have all demanded its greatness. So now we will all have to pay our dues I remember when the first Cell phones and plans, were to expensive for the average person to afford well we are back there again as modern tech becomes the norm and we demand its greatness. To change my plan with 3 smart phones and 2 basic lines to share 6 giga would be $10.00 cheaper than my,2 unlimited and one 2gig line now. 10 gig would be $10.00 more so they have us no matter what. Unlimited will end soon as I have heard that some time in the near future you will not be able to activate a phone with a different ESN # on a line with out moving to the new data plans we are all at that rock and hard place time so I guess we should get used to it. .from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk 2
[Thunderbolt General] Bigtim70:
Well I was actually on the with verizon the other day. And after the lady helped me I asked her about using an upgrade and keeping unlimited data. She told me you can upgrade and keep unlimited data as long as the plan doesn't change. Now she told that the verizon system will tell the employee to change the data plan but if you tell them you don't want it changed they can keep the unlimited data on the plan. But that is only until the end of year. So in 2013 an upgrade will cost you unlimited data. So my TB upgrade is actually Christmas day so I will try to upgrade without losing my data plan. I don't know how true what she told me is but she told me she was gonna do the same thing. I don't know if that helps. I am new to posting :)
[Thunderbolt General] jimmyco2008:
Anyone else find this to be true?
[Thunderbolt General] quickdraw86:
I would never put discretion over keeping my unlimited data plan in the trust of a Verizon employee... maybe paranoia, but I just don't trust big red or any of their reps, they're all used car salesmen to me.

*Thunderbolt 4G*
[Thunderbolt General] tuckandroll:
i think verizon will see a drop off in subscribership from this plan i for one will not be upping my contract.
[Thunderbolt General] buton2:
I will just buy used phones too keep my unlimited data... maybe a galaxy s3 by march next year it will be cheap and probably Samsung will be releasing the galaxy s 5
[Thunderbolt General] Mysticdroid:
Got 2 ideas right now when my contract is up. I'm not sure which I'll go with.

Either I'll track down an incredible 2 and go to a prepaid service called Pageplus or get a htc one v and go with straighttalk.

LTE isn't worth the price, I'd rather have a cheap & competent phone w/ a nexus 7 than a top of the line phone by itself. $80/month is just too much too. Verizon is starting to really gouge with their pricing and I don't use that much data. 2gigs will be enough If I only pay 45-55/month.
[Thunderbolt General] jordache16:
Well I think I jinxed myself. I dropped my TB over the weekend (maybe the third or fourth time that I have ever dropped it) and cracked the screen pretty bad. I could probably live with a cracked screen for a few months but I found out a while back that my phone will randomly not get text messages that people send me. Other times I won't receive texts from people until several days after they send it. I noticed this problem a while ago but it seemed to be intermittent and I thought it had gone away. Recently though I discovered that it is still happening and this is apparently something that several other TB users have experienced as well.

I ended up buying a 'barely used' Nexus on eBay for $240. This seemed like a pretty reasonable deal, considering a new phone on contract would be about that much anyways. I'll see how the Nexus pans out and may just end up using my upgrade in January to buy a new phone and then sell that. Of course this would mean I would lose out on unlimited data, but the extra cash may be worth it.
[Thunderbolt General] recDNA:
Then how do you get a new phone? Heck, I wasn't even relaxed when I upgraded my wife's phone but I would like to update mine eventually. I will pay full price but at this point I suspect I'm better off waiting until fall to see what motorola and htc add to vzw lineup.
[Thunderbolt General] dm47:
I'm hoping to get a nexus at some point. would be great if I could still do it with unlimited data, but then again I really don't use that much data and unlike most people could probably manage if I lose unlimited.

Once I get off my family plan though I'm considering switching to Republic Wireless. Verizon's prices seem crazy compared to $19/mo no contract
[Thunderbolt General] jimmyco2008:
For me, well I feel like once you go LTE you never go back. Republic Wireless I actually really like, they only charge $20 a month because you are really only supposed to use the cellular network for emergencies, well at least very sparingly- it's really for people who are around WiFi most of the time, and that's a growing number of us. If you use a crapload of data from the cellular network or something, they give you a slap on the wrist in the form of an email telling you what you did wrong and how to use less network resources. Cause a stir a few more times and you get kicked out of the Republic. lol

I'm in it for unlimited data though so it would never work with me. Otherwise I'd be there in a heartbeat, it's so cool using WiFi for everything!
[Thunderbolt General] androidrookie84:
I'm probably going to keep my thunderbolt for another year or buy a used Gnex but after my contact is up I'm going to buy a GSM phone and move to straight talk.