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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azzledazzle:
+1 i agree !!! although some remain faultless what about the users that do suffer from this. they should be made to last at least a full year without any issues at all and we should not be subject to lowering brightness ect. thats the whole point of the amoled screen.

I think a poll should be made.. if it is a success then perhaps we could make a petition and see how that goes ???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
Its hard to take phone on an error that dont existing.

I did try to look and changed the britness from minimum to maximum without seeing any strange.

So no i don't have it....

**DamianGTO Steam kernel. 350MB Ram. 500HZ. ext2/jfs . js3 base**
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mloc33:
You would like to think that phone manufactures would have solved it?

I mean we`re paying out the ying yang for these phones..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Technecium:
You seem really passionate about this. Contact a lawyer and spearhead a class action lawsuit. Complaining about the lack of complaints will get "some people" nowhere.

Good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Atb_555:
I've had my phone for 2 months and (touch wood) I haven't had any screen issues. But Im always cautious of making sure my screen is turned off while charging or transferring files via usb.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
mine had issues about 4 months+ after
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smukc:
on mine galaxy s which is 4 months old i see the shadow of the batery when i start XDA aplication when picture with xda logo apears on fullscreen =) and in test mode on blue screen i could see signal indicator and batery =) but i noticed that burn efect disapere wery quickly. after 30 seconds there is no more shadow of batery or signal indicator...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opica:
How about reading this and not posting new threads?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
There is 2 way of looking at an issue

Fist: Try to fix it. It's mostly why XDA Dev exists. This is like a comunity. People try to find solution for issue the manufacturer has yet to resolve. If all fails, they most likely get it exchanged or fixed or sell it and get something at their taste.

In this case, for instance, you could probably try "Pixel Fixer" on the "dead spot" or run something like the flashlight app 15 min/day

Second: You complain about everything because it's not "at your taste". those people doesn't realy want it fixed, they want to compain that's about all! Because most people who would take actions (Sue or petitions or such) falls (most likely) in the first category. So they might fix it instead of complaining... We got hundreads of pages with "issue" with GPS, or people complaining they havent got Froyo, or don't have 2.2.1 or 2.2.2 or whatever. They complain and wine about it but won't take actions (like installing 2.2.1 themselves or trying some GPS fixes) because they only want to complain and wine...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Product F(RED):
Fixing it would be as easy as keeping something totally white on the screen for a long time. I don't understand what the heck you could've done to keep an image on the screen for so long it burned in. I've heard of the notification bar burning in since that's displayed almost all the time, but usually that goes away. What you need is a pixel cleaner I think. It flashes different colors on each pixel until they get "unstuck", which is similar to the issue you're having.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mazen1990:
I don't complain that it is "not at my taste", I bought this phone partially for the amazing display, little did I know that the display would only last a few months. You use examples like 2.2.1 and the GPS but guess what, the user has a right to whine about a product that is defective. This forum is about creativity and advancing the technology, it should not be about buying broken products full price and fixing them ourselves. I did not pay several hundred dollars for a phone with gps,good screen etc. so that I can go home and fix all the broken features that I PAYED for.My screen should last more than a few months because I PAYED for it, my GPS should work because I PAYED for it, I should have 2.2 because I was promised it when I PAYED for it.

Regarding the other responses, this is not burn in but rather burn out. The OLED's are degraded very fast and no longer shine as strong as before, if this happens unevenly (due to your NORMAL usage or theme) then you have one section of the screen which appears darker then the rest which gives a burn in /shadow appearance. Using one of the constant color/screen-on apps will just degrade all the OLED's faster, if it does equalize the darkening then congratulations you fixed your display at the cost of its lifespan/quality and you are going to have to repeat this process every 1-3 months.That is just paying for a defective display where the only fix is to further that damage.

I am trying to contact samsung by phone/email although I live in the middle east and the local samsung provider could not be anymore apathetic about customer service. Finally I would like to say that I am not the only person with this problem, just take a look at the 15 page thread about burn in, I dont think I have been to a single galaxy s site where burn in (out) is not mentioned.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
Exactly what I said... it doen't realy matter what you think you've paid for, it is what it is... If you feel cheated you should sue them, start a class action or a petition and be done with it. Or sell it and buy something else you'd expect to be more like "what you've paid for". But you don't really want that, you just want to tell the world how much you are disapointed and how much you think it shouldn't be this way... Guess what, to most of the world, this IS wining.

The real question remains: Do you want it fix or do you want to complain?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xmfpdlemalnz@hotmail.com:
Oh my god.

People, do some effing research and stop posting absurd answers as if you know shi* about oled screens.

Fact number one,

Oled screens do NOT actually have "burn-in".

It only refers to crt screens in which phosphrous gets "burnt" and leaves traces if a static image is shown for a long time.

What we have with sgs is purely degradation of organic pixels.

Thus, there is no fix for this.

If you use an app like "pixel fixer" which keeps screen on with different colors for a long time, you are just shortening lifespan of oled screen.

You only do such thing for lcd screens to get rid of dead pixels.

Also, for oled screens, blue pixels degrade faster than other colors (Losing its brightness faster)

This is why you see that battery icon and so on.

So to sum up,

Oled screens have **** life-span so if you use it for around 3-4 months, pixels will gradually lose its brightness and leave an effect that is similar to "burn-in".

Since battery icon is in blue and it's there on the top all the time, it is far more susceptible to burn out.

later
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
I have had mine for about 5 months and I too notice these things when using the xda app on the main boot page. Hmmm... Strange. I agree... These screens should last at least 1 year before going bad...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mazen1990:
1.I am working on it, as I said I am trying to get into contact with managers at samsung.

2.I do not see why I can not complain while dealing with this, If you bought a cheeseburger and the restaurant gave you a bun and no patty would you get angry or just walk away because that's how life is.

3.These are not things I expect them to provide but rather things that they claimed would defiantly be delivered given that I gave them my money. I payed my end, they failed to deliver.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mloc33:
Its a forum, theres bound to be a few similar posts here and there, take a chill pill!

Sent from hell.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SKeijmel:
whats the problem the phone will still be working after 5 years :P

the screen might nog be flawless anymore by than.

i say they have to give me a free samsung galaxy S2 because this galaxy just sucks:P

dont worry the galaxy 2 wil also have a samoled(2) screen.

and dont worry it wont be much better hehe :P they might see so but it will have pixel degradation too. they might have a better screen algorithem to compensate for the degradition. but that will be it ;P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benjefreys:
This threads a joke the Galaxy S has one of the best screens on the market if you can't deal with image retention then get a different phone.

You can't have everything you want
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nwsk:
Hmm, I've had my phone for ~5 months now, tried going full brightness on blue test screen, see no burn in whatsoever.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Product F(RED):
Nobody listens: AMOLED screens are like Plasma screens. Anything that stays on the screen in one position for a while (in this case the notification bar) burns in.

Possible Solutions:

- While charging the phone, don't let the screen turn off for an hour. Keep something totally white on the screen.

OR

- Grab a pixel cleaner from the Market and let it run for a while.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -shift-:
i don't think this is an evo, or even android, issue, but i was hoping the great minds here could maybe direct me or at least clear this issue out for me. i have an mp3 file i'd like to use as a voicemail message greeting. is that even possible? i know a lot of people have songs as greetings, but i always thought those were selected from a bank of pre-selected options.

any thoughts on this?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
hmmm. Take the song, layer your voice over, then plug your phone into the computer through line output (does the 3.5mm act as mic jack? on the phone) then call your voice mail :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -shift-:
haha i thought of doing that, but i don't think the 3.5mm acts as a mic. if it does though, someone please correct me because i have the most epic of all greetings ready to be unleashed on the few who actually call me haha.

my only alternative, which seems to be the only one at the moment, is to let my laptop scream it out loud while the voicemail system catches it. sigh.. lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
The headphone jack does support mic input, but only through a hands-free headset (that is, a TRRS jack). I just dug through my stuff and I only have 2.5mm headsets, no 3.5mm that would fit the Evo, but if anybody has a stereo headset they should try this out. I tried an external mic and it doesn't pick up, but the headset icon comes on in the notification bar. If it works, it's easy enough to make your own external microphone with simple Radio Shack parts, probably a $5 job. I'll splice something together tomorrow and test this out. The only issue would be that it might trigger the headphone output and mute the speakers. . . .

EDIT: Also just found this. I just sent my cables off with family on a trip so I can't try it right now, but I'll give it a go tomorrow as well.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -shift-:
oooh awesome, please let me know! i don't mind building an external mic at all. thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
Well, I struck out looking for my other AV cable and finding one locally. Here's the way this is going to go down:

The Evo headphone jack is a 4-conductor type, also known as TRRS (tip-ring-ring-sleeve). Normal stereo headphones are TRS (tip-ring-sleeve), and you can see the difference by looking at the plug end. If you have a metal tip, then a black ring, then a metal ring, then another black ring, then the metal shaft (sleeve), it's a TRS type. These are able to send the left and right analog signals separately (usually left to the tip, right to the ring, and the ground or shield to the sleeve). The TRRS connector adds another wire to the mix, and this can be used to carry a mono mic or line signal, or even an analog video signal. This is why you could use an analog camcorder cable like this one. I've seen them for less than $2 from some websites, but no local retailers have them, except maybe Best Buy . . . for $41. (You think I'm kidding? :eek:)

Cell phones are starting to use these TRRS connectors more commonly, allowing both stereo headphones and a hands-free microphone to share one cable. The problem here is finding a TRRS input cable and coupling it to a line/mic signal. So here's what I was going to do. Get a TRRS-to-RCA adapter like the one linked above, then use a 3.5mm-to-RCA female-female adapter OR a common 3.5mm-to-RCA (red and white) adapter to connect a line/mic signal to the correct RCA connector on the TRRS cable - probably the yellow one. It may or may not take the right kind of adapter to take the stereo line signal down to a mono signal, unless your source is already mono. Otherwise, you could be sending a stereo signal from the source, but only recording the left or right channel into the phone. Alternatively, if I had an iPhone headset or another stereo hands-free headset with a mic built in, I could cut the wire open and separate out the microphone wire from the bundle, then splice a mic/line onto it. It's sometimes tricky getting those tiny wires split apart just right, and those headsets are sometimes expensive.

So, short version: You need a TRRS connector to plug into the Evo headphone jack, and you need to be able to feed a mono line/mic signal to just the tip of the connector. Easy. :) I have everything but the TRRS plug itself, so I'm stuck for today.

By the way, if you've ever plugged a TRRS cable into the Evo, you'll notice that the standard headphone icon in the notification bar actually shows up with a little microphone coming down, like a flight headset, so you know you have a mic signal at least triggering that fourth conductor.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -shift-:
hmm... you're right about the different icon. i tried it with my old iphone 3gs earphone/mic. pretty slick lol.

i'm going to go to radio shack tomorrow and grab this stuff. all for a custom voicemail lol.

thanks a lot! i'll post up my results, probably this weekend.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
There are broader applications to this, I think. Find a good mic and you could record events, maybe. Or hack together your own car kit. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -shift-:
you, sir, are giving me ideas.. i sense a good weekend project coming up.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djstern:
A different voicemail for each caller.

One of the few times I've been able to come up with an answer before some one beat me to it.

There is a free website out there that I love called youmail.com. You can choose from hundreds of recordings they have or upload your own. Each person can have their own unique voice mail greeting or you can set up groups and each member in that group will have the same greeting.

For example, my work associates get a more professional greeting, family and close friends get something more fun. I've got one just for my wife telling her how much I love her, and a friend of mine that I have shall we say, a boisterous relationship with, get's a very sarcastic greeting. Another friend that's into horses get's a Kentucky horse race greeting. As you can see, you can have a lot of fun with it and do just about anything I like with it.

If you want to do something in your own voice than all you need is a regular microphone to plug into your computer and your set. You can record it directly on the web site or you can use your own software to overlay other audio if you like.

Your limited only by your imagination.

It's a free site, but they do have some pay ring-tones if you really want to give them your money. Personally, I haven't found most of the pay tones to be worth it, but I'm sure somebody does. They have to be paying the bills some how. :p
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerryparid:
Old Spice?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -shift-:
:D this voicemail is now diamonds
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -shift-:
i read about this.. is it really that good? i don't really like setting up my voicemail from a third-party because, well, i've never done it and didn't really have a need before.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djstern:
I think it is. Never had a problem and I've spent hours going through the hundreds of sound files they have and had a lot of fun doing it. Found everything from very professional to down right vulgar (used that on my best friend) and everything in between. I've even set up holiday greetings for many holidays. It can be lots of fun for both you and your callers.

Just like ringtones. Some people love them, others hate them and just want a simple ring. It's up to you. If you like custom voice mail greetings, then you'll love this one.

Other than selecting the greetings you like and assigning them to your frequent callers, all you have to do to enable or disable is it to set your no answer call forward from your carrier to the youmail number. *28-XXX-XXX-XXXX to turn it on and *38 to turn it off. It couldn't be any easier.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -shift-:
hmmm.. i'll definitely check it out then. thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] initial:
A lot of these features are available through google voice. (http://voice.google.com). Google also has an app for google voice to integrate visual voicemail with your phone. Worth checking out if you want a highly customizable v-mail service.

In order to setup your phone so that all voicemails go to your google voice instead of your sprint voicemail dial *28 + google phone number without the 1. it's a free service from sprint.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studiosandmanx:
I have the perfect answer for uploading greetings!!!!

All you have to do is simply download youmail!!!! On your mobile. It works for all cellphones and you can do whatever you want to do. Any other way is simply ridiculous hahaha try it and spread the word!!!!!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] darkspadez:
Ever since i put cyan 6 RC1 and installed Superuser 2.2.2 it keeps saying that super user isnt loacted at system/bin/su or system/xbin/su ive tried flashing su 2.2.2 many times still no luck also it shows up in the app screen and i can launch it but no programs can access it btw mytouch 3g v1.2 cyan 6 rc1
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Binary100100:
adb shell

# cd /system/bin

# find *su*

Do you see a "su" file in there?

# cd ..

# cd xbin

# find *su*

Do you see a "su" file in there?

If no to both then you should probably try reflashing the rom (you could try pusing it from the update.zip file, and then chmod 777 /system/xbin/su and then chmod 755 /system/bin/su (I THINK!)

You can also try Titanium backup (Free from Market) and click Problems and upgrade BusyBox.

Of course I recommend doing a backup prior to doing any of this.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] darkspadez:
C:\AndroidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell
# cd /system/bin
cd /system/bin
# find *su*
find *su*
su
surfaceflinger
wpa_supplicant
# cd ..
cd ..
# cd xbin
cd xbin
# find *su*
find *su*
cksum
lsusb
md5sum
sha1sum
sha256sum
sha512sum
su

I have no clue why its not working
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Binary100100:
Clear the data on SuperUser app.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] darkspadez:
if you mean like remove the apps from the application on the phone and try to load the apps that require it ive already done that
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] darkspadez:
I even went into apps in settings and cleared data still nothing
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rjmjr69:
I keep losing superuser permissions since installing 2.2.2?
[HD2 General] pjkj13:
Ok, so I turned off the data connections (well, deleted the connections really). I have my HD2 hooked up to active sync at the moment, and I was wanting to check something online with my phone. Well, right as I clicked go, I thought about just deleting the connections (jackass, you can't connect anymore). It went through anyway.

Did I not delete all of my connections for data (I checked, cannot see them anymore), or do I get internet access through my cable?

Edit:

I have the left/right pointing arrows at the top.

The only connection I have left is for MMS server....could I be connecting through this?
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
it will use your pc connection when active synced.that's why WiFi gets grayed out.
[HD2 General] pjkj13:
Well that is freakin sweet. I don't think I have had a phone that would do that before.
[HD2 General] alex fung:
Yes, nearlly all previous versions of PPC can do it. Before PPCs became phones and have internet access of their own.

However it seems that if your PC is using a proxy, WM will get confused.
[EVO 4G General] Sprockethead:
I'm happy with the 50fps. But now I want higher mflops because I'll never be satisfied.

Frozen Eclair didn't work for me. And I don't want to switch from Fresh.

Any suggestions? Am I missing a zip file out there somewhere?

Thanks in advance.
[EVO 4G General] Sprockethead:
Nothing at all? I'm getting like 6-8. Other patched ROMs out there are getting like 45 :eek:.

So... I'm satisfied and everything. I just feel like there must be somebody out there that has put a patch on their Fresh for mflops and had some kind of result.
[HD2 General] johnisbeast:
Alright heres the deal:..

I did the hspl thing i was running. 2.10 down to 2.08.

so now im trying to flash a custom rom, but i get error 240. when following to setup procedure.

anyone know why?, or what could i do to get custom roms.
[HD2 General] wrecless:
im having the exact same problem with the energy max rom
[HD2 General] oshizzle1991:
is the phone plugged into the computer? you have to make sure its connected via active sync
[HD2 General] watcher64:
Make sure you chose 2.08HSPL and not SPL2.08 , see people make the wrong choice by accident when doing that ....
[HD2 General] pixine786:
Error 240 -- might be not connected to PC and activesynced or battery low... if both are ok then try removing your SD Card before flash. My two cents :)
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
+1 on that

run hspl3 (no need to downgrade anymore, hspl3 works on 2.10.0000)

choose "2.08.hspl"

done.
[HD2 General] wrecless:
i figured out what we were doing wrong and it's going to sound dumb as it made me feel after 2 hours of reading and nothing posted helped me. well the problem is that the L7 file is a zip file but because my computer never seen that type of file before the icon it used made it look like a unziped file so I was putting the L7 in with the leosoftwareupgrade tool. OOps lol. well all I had to do was right click and open with my unzip program and away i went everything else went great
[Vibrant General] welch:
I noticed the EUR model has an FM Tuner app. Without having the device yet, can anyone confirm if it is possible to extract the .apk from the EUR model and install it on the US model?
[Vibrant General] tissimo:
I pulled the FMRadio.apk from one of the ROMs in the International section, and attached it.. Someone with root try it out on their device. Extract and adb push or something.
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
I doubt it but if anyone has the .apk file I can try it out
[Vibrant General] marsupial99:
Quick! Look up!
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
Would not install =(
[Vibrant General] zedomax:
Doesnt work

I've tried it too, doesn't work.
[Vibrant General] bahnburner:
It's more than likely going to have to be de-odexed, and the fm radio is probably disabled in the kernel.
[Vibrant General] fadedmicrobe:
wouldn't a fm tuner require fm hardware?
[Vibrant General] welch:
Wasn't sure if the radio in the vibrant was the same as the European model with FM tuner support. It could be a feature like the broadcom radio in the N1