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[Galaxy S I9000 General] TechNoir:
Checking my display with lowest brightness and I also have some banding on the display, I can see mainly vertical lines, aswell as broader vertical bands a few millimeters thick. It looks almost like jpeg compression to me, as if the graphic used on the notification bar has some subtle shading that compression has turned into subtly-defined line/square areas. Also shows up in the browser on websites, and scrolling leaves them static, so it looks like a subtle overlay pattern from the display. Basically invisible at anything other than lowest brightness for me though.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
I noticed those bandings first before the burn out
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Aphova:
Sorry to hear that. Aargh... It's getting worse... Now to learn to live with it or send it into the black hole of my operator's repair centre :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
Also has anyone noticed when displaying a pure white image on the whole screen, you can visibly see some faint black lines along the screen at different shades, this is even more noticable if you put it side by side on an LCD based phone with good whites or the iphone4
[Galaxy S I9000 General] opica:
No, I haven't. I've got the phone for 7 months now.

The only problem I have with my screen is flickering when turning wifi on:(

Otherwise, the screen still looks awesome, no burn-ins, nothing.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] prcach:
got battery burn-in...

got also some few gray areas, visible only on low brightness or grayish backgrounds...seems like this is normal for amoled screens...

phone is 5months old
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Aphova:
batter burn-in?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] drewler:
Hello,

The light/dark lines that you are talking about... do they look like these?

(I slightly touched the contrast)

I got my Galaxy S like two weeks ago... at first I was happy with it. No lines, no burns... then, these lines appeared. Vodafone refused to change the phone (they replied: "No light lines found"). But I took the phone to a Samsung repair service and they changed the screen :)

Now, there aren't lines and I'm thinking to sue Vodafone for breaking their warranty.

The new screen looks great! Maybe some zones are a bit lighter or darker, but can't compare with the previous lines :S
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mothatt:
I've also noticed this banding. I had my phone for about a month and noticed some distinct differences with greys and also burn in when the screen was completely red (not blue) where the status bar was. So I got the front replaced under warranty by fonebiz (contracted by multiple mobile manufacturers for repairs) and now I have this banding but not as prominent.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
@drewler

Something similar but not to that extent or not that thickness, ill try to see if I can capture it on camera...

Its pretty noticable when I watch movies if the scene has some light colors on it like the sky or some animated film showing certain colors.

Can you post pictures of how your new screen looks like ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Bwaze:
Maybe this screen degradation (burn-in is really an incorrect term) is the reason why Samsung more or less cancelled worldwide release of home and car docks? They realised that with these docks some people leave screen active for hours (when using phone as a navigation unit in car, or as a pretty clock / weather station at home). That would really show the extent of degradation these types of screens suffer, and lead to many dissatisfied customers and phone repairs.

Just a thought. I have heard that service centre here usually does not acknowledge screen degradation as a defect.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Aphova:
Exactly like that. It's spreading further up the screen now and is becoming noticeable at higher brightness settings... I'm getting flickering too when changing from an app with a dark background to a light one. It's like you can see the image becoming lighter from the bottom to the to the top if that makes sense. Screen lag...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neilbantoc:
Lol, this was out of vanity but i realize that doing this kinda helped avoid the burn in

I use launcher pro, a home screen replacement that lets me automatically hide the notification bar. Then i set the swipe up gesture of the app launcher icon (a feature of launcher pro) to show open the notifications shade. I also set the browser icon's swipe up gesture to just show/hide the notification bar. The reason i did this? To show my wallpaper in full screen. There's an option in launcher pro to have 3 different docks that can be side-swiped. I set one of those to have empty icons so that when i swipe to that dock, my wallpaper is now full screen.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
Thats very possible, but its sneaky for samsung to have such a screen with really low life span, Im also wondering if those screen based notification apps will also slowly degrade the brightness of the screen, I mean SAMOLED cant display pure blacks (OLEDs are still lit) but I wonder if the voltage going through the screen will degrade it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] leoon:
Is there any pic of this burn in?

I've had my phone for +6 months and I dont see anything here??
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Jumba:
The advantage of samoled is that it can render pure blacks vs LCD.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
The SAMOLED is not capable of displaying "Pure Black" unless the screen is totally off, heres a little test you can do to see the limited black levels the SAMOLED can do, create a image with pure black 00000 and view it on the image viewer and goto a dark room, tap the screen to remove the UI or to refresh the screen time out counter then wait for the screen to time out, notice the significant difference on the so called "pure black" and screen off and tell me which one is black.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] haloimplant:
Wow you are indeed right it is not pure black. It is pretty damn dark though. My eyes are pretty good and I didn't see anything until I went into a completely pitch black room. (Which incidentally I am never in as I live in the city and don't bother with curtains, I also don't make habit of closing the door to the bathroom with the lights off)

Now one thing I have notice in more typical lighting conditions is bleed. Black next to white will be brighter and fade as distance increases. This would be very hard to eliminate, I don't think it's the pixels actually producing light but rather the light from the bright area diffusing out. I suspect that this problem is common with touchscreens (this is the only one I've had, someone else might be able to compare), the extra layers above the panel don't pass light perfectly. It's not really a big deal though (like the insanely low black), just something I noticed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] opica:
But the black is still much better on SAMOLED than in any other technology available.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
The issue is not about whats better.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rlorange:
So what is the issue if we are off the topic of burn in... Semantics?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neilbantoc:
I've tried this too.. I noticed that there is still a faint glow when the screen is totally black compared to totally turned off.. Still, when you set the screen to max brightness, you get the same level of black, so maybe those oleds just need a small current even when totally black, thus producing the glow.. Ie you can't really have a display that's on but with some pixels having no current..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
In case you just read 2-3 posts before mine the issue is about AMOLED burn out, a fellow forumer neilbantoc posted about the dock, if you ever seen the docks especially the home dock feature you can tell that it uses a LOT of blacks and I was just wondering if the lit blacks on the SAMOLED would also trigger the burn out and Jumba came in with the specifics about it can display pure black if you wanna discuss about semantics take it with Jumba, if you have nothing to contribute about this then dont troll. Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
Just a theory of mine, Samsung is halting the current production of the SAMOLED screen in "favor" for the SAMOLED Plus and SAMOLED 2, they say they cant keep up the demand volume for the SAMOLED and had to ship out WaveII with S-LCD and I9003 with S-LCD and the rumors about Nexus S might have S-LCD in the future.

For me this is bull, samsung might be pretty aware that the life span of the SAMOLED is pretty short compared to the regular OLED and just maybe they are making a new revision for this that will ship with the Galaxy S2 or a SAMOLED Plus device.

If it really was a shortage issue, then why is it so easy to buy a bulk of original SAMOLED replacement screens online in some countries.

If only there was a way to get it to the Philippines that easy id grab 1 extra screen :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] iammodo:
I got 18 delivered this morning never noticed an issue getting them for Samsung.

Sent from my GTI-9000 Using that XDA app thingy
[Galaxy S I9000 General] giannis_ch:
Just to protect my screen from getting any burn in/out, is there any gps navigation app that works on completely full screen?(without notification bar)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Aphova:
Iammodo, have you seen the problem I've got often? The brightness banding? What other common problems do you see?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] iammodo:
Not seen it myself. Most common problems are GPS and bottom touch keys not working

Sent from my GTI-9000 Using that XDA app thingy
[Galaxy S I9000 General] #1RAGE:
This is true but if you try the same thing with a LCD, you'll have a decent flashlight in the dark. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Schunken:
Guys...calm down :)

Our Samsung Galaxy is ancient in less than 2 years. And the screen will last 2 years when you use it like a smart phone and not like a desktop computer...

Andreas
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rlorange:
How difficult is it to replace one of these screens. As in, if I purchased one myself could I find a good local repair man to install it quickly and easily? And... Cheaply? Seems like a good idea to get one now while they are plentiful and cheap as an insurance policy because I would like to keep this phone for as long as possible maybe longer than the lifetime if a samoled screen
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
Yeah I forgot to include in my statement that not all regions have stock shortages but I know you already know thats what I mean.

True, the backlight it self with a black screen should be more than enough to act as a torch light.

Its gonna be ancient when the Galaxy S2 is released in just a couple of months from now, yes the screen will last for 2yrs but certain area's of the screen will only last a 4-5 months when even rarely used, I dont even use my phone for internet browsing.

Difficulty will really vary from person to person, like for example modo here it should be extremely easy for him since he repairs phones in a professional level, for me its gonna be a bit difficult since im only good with computers.. tinkering/volt modding/overclocking
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
quoted from someone on another thread.

EDIT:

Also the screen burn is affecting several Samsung Wave, id like to be specific on this as it was posted on a local forum that they are also having burn out issues with the Wave.. seems pretty common for a defective screen dont you think?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mloc33:
Well the screen is only a small part of all the cons with this phone, with all the ROM`s floating around here, is there a phone that comes a standard with something similar?

These smart phones are supposed to be so, smart, but bot out of the box.

When I spend €500 on a phone I expect it to make me hard when I first take it out of the box, not this one.

I think there hyped, BUT when I came across XDA, I and the developers made my phone to what it should be, SMART!

Why sell a product where the customer can only use 60 - 70% of its potential?

Maybe in 5 - 10 years smart phones will be better
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
I sure hope SAMOLED Plus on the SGS2 would have a longer usage time, despite the sucky resolution im lured in by the piicture quality xD
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wifi802.11abgn:
use ADW launcher for hiding the notification bar
[Galaxy S I9000 General] samven582:
Is banding normal?? I see them on the lowest setting on a white screen. Furthermore, I just bought a galaxy s brand new from amazon and I am thinking about exchanging it because of this issue.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xchasa:
Guess I'm lucky...

Had phone for close to 1 year and screen seems as good as the first day. All leds working and back and menu fine too.

Have always had auto brightness and never used screen filter.

Touch wood.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] farazive:
well samsung.. you did it again... God know's what new tricks the S2 will hold.. 4-5 months is blasphemy! Considering Super AMOLED was one of the reasons i got this device..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
The screen on the SGS2 is confirmed to suffer the same issue and brightness loss..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LuoSKraD:
Guess they didn't replace/upgraded the screens of the newest sgs's did they?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rlorange:
I have noticed that the faint glow of a black screen has steadily brightened as my screen has aged. When I first got it I could barely see it but now it is quite obvious.

To great relief however the burn out on the notification bar strip of screen seems to be as obvious as it was months ago, hasn't got noticeably worse thank God!

**Simply Honey3.5, Zak'sTalon 0.2.1 kernel 1.3ghz, ZSJV5 modem**
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LuoSKraD:
Do you guys usualy use your phone at max brightness or something? Just to know if theres something related because I'm thinking about buying either Sgs or lg black the only thing that is keeping me from the sgs is the screen burn I guess
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
Its an inate issue of AMOLED tech, this is probably why LG still uses IPS ??

Lowest brightness almost always.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LuoSKraD:
Damn :/ I really wanted the sgs for its cpu/gpu but i'm not sure If I want to buy it anymore, that oled problem is a real let down. I hate having crap on my screen that isn't supposed to be there..from dead pixels to burns like those :/
[Galaxy S I9000 General] RaPiiDe:
Hi, I'm French so sorry for my English.

I use every day software called "iCoyote" to signal and be notified of fixed and mobile radars.

I never let "iCoyote" running over 30 minutes.

Yet, I have a huge "Burn-In".

(on a I9100)

Photos:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] spamtrash:
@RaPiiDe

well, this is reaosn why I use SGS as PHONE with OCCASIONAL apps use, while my camerAlert/StaNav soft works on HTC HD2...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] upichie:
... really?

My screen on time, on average and per day, is between 3-5 hours. I have had my phone for over a year, and when I first bought it, I used it 6+ hours in a day.

I have never, ever, ever witnessed any screen burning. What the heck do you guys do with your phone? I would consider myself to be on it more than an average person is on their phone, yet I've never, ever, EVER witnessed this problem. I'm confused. What are you guys doing?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] spamtrash:
Right. Try to do experiment: set your phone as the satnav, or, as the speed camera warner.

To make it easier for you: keep your phone in horizontal position with ANY application which:

1. dispalys some constant elements on screen, like speed cam circle, or sat nav bar;

2. DISABLES screen dimming or switching off, keep it alive for at least 6hrs/daily.

3. Wait 2-3 months...

;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] compuse:
No burning in noticeable, having the phone for 1 year and 2 months now en it had a lot of changes to demolish the leds(came back to my phone with nothing more then a bright android or samsung logo after somewhat hours) .. none what's so ever ...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] galaxy89:
I have my sgs for about a year now and theres some signs of burning. Still got another 12months warranty but taking the phone in means flashing back to stock rom etc. Not too keen for that!
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] mautz001:
Because flashing of my Galaxy 3 only works when I have a datafs.rfs in a ROM, I copied the datafs.rfs of the I5800XXJF8 to the JPB ROM - after 10 Minutes "Flashing datafs.rfs" I closed the Program unexpectally and now my phone does no longer turn on screen just black...

Thanks for any help

Robin
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] FadeFx:
Seams you flashed a firmware with boot.bin and sbl.bin, it is highly recommended to remove those files to prevent bricking. You can try to remove battery, wait for some minutes before replacing and try again. If it has no effect you have to send it in for repair.
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] mautz001:
I tried it for 20 minutes and it didnt worked. . .

so I need to exchange the phone?! Oh no the Guys at Media Markt will kill me its my second refund in 3 Days :-D
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] masterg0g0:
You are lucky to have a replacement in 3 days.. i waited for 1 month to get a replacement from samsung.. dude.. dont do something which you are not good with.. i mean flashing :)
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] mautz001:
No I mean I buyed a XPERIA X8 5 days ago and exchanged (dont know if its the right word btw :-D) it yesterday because I wanted to have the galaxy 3. Now I need to exchange it again :-D So I think they wont be happy about that (I dont know how to tell them I think I cant say "I bricked it while flashing" (warranty issues :D) Hmm I will think about a white lie :-D

BtW I think (okay, I thought) I am good at flashing I even cooked new ROMs for HTC Himalaya and I also cooked one ROM for the Vodafone 845.... Just the Galaxy 3 is not my case :D
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] masterg0g0:
I just love my german friends :) new year celebrations with James huh ?
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] FadeFx:
You'd better tell em it just does not start up anymore. You have keine Ahnung was passiert ist...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dan1909:
Just a quick question for you all, I currently have around 3.5MB of free space in /System, which is making it impossible to copy anything across over this size.

Is this the norm, as it seems very low? From searching it seems a few other people are having similar issues, but I can't seem to find an answer/fix for it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ukdtweak:
I had a similar issue after installing JPU rom, so simply uninstalled a few apps that came with the firmware, such as Layer.... using SGS TOOLS :)

Now I have 11.8mb free space in System.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dan1909:
I've already uninstalled pretty much everything I don't use.

Down to 0.9MB now, surely somebody must know what's causing this? Running a fresh install of JPY with a root, nothing fancy.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ruki_Uki:
My girlfriend just jumped on my plan and got a Samsung Transform. Since I have qik and she don't, what's a better app for video chatting?? Qik sucks so I wouldn't want to use it anyways. I want something where we can both talk when we want and no one has to hold a button to talk.

Sent from my EVO's 4G :) You?........I thought so
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Khilbron:
Try Fring

10 chars
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ruki_Uki:
Alright thanks :) That was probably going to be my first choice, I just figured is ask so I hear from experience.

Sent from my EVO's 4G :) You?........I thought so
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evolishesh:
try oovoo. that works good.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ifly4vamerica:
Tango

10char
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CCallahan:
+1 Tango
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malibu_23:
Yahoo messenger
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ruki_Uki:
I heard tango really drains your battery though :/

Sent from my EVO's 4G :) You?........I thought so
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edisepic:
yahoo messenger is awesome phone to phone or phone to comp its awesome
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nefariouss:
I like Tango. So +1 for Tango
[EVO 4G General] Abracastabya:
So I did some Googling and didn't really find anything explaining this...I just did the debug thing in the browser and would like to know what these do. TIA :)

Vomitose
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nitrox1:
Had anyone got the two finger google maps rotation hack for the desire? Know there is one for nexus one.

Desire is the source of all suffering.
[Nexus S General] thejron:
How does one go about doing this without damage the back cover?
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
Not to sound like a smart ass, but carefully im sure it can be done but without damaging the rest of the cover, im not so sure.
[Nexus S General] zorak950:
I think you'd be safer to just put a nice, low-profile black case on it. Or maybe rubberize it with spray-on plastic, that might look nice. I'm having trouble imagining how you'd remove the logos and not cause any damage to the rest of the cover. Some sort of chemical bath or soft scraper, maybe? Or you could try just buffing them out.
[Nexus S General] Syphon Filter:
I've never done it but I remember people using sugar cubes to do this in the past.

I take no responsibility if you trash your battery cover doing this though.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tkolev:
Hi all, I have a newbie question about the default landscape orientation. Can it be set to 90 instead of 270 degrees so the buttons are on the left side when in landscape applications?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andy:
Not sure how you could set this with HTC Sense.

This is an option you can select on Cyanogen Mod though.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tkolev:
Just to make clear - I don't want landscape in Sense. I'm asking about landscape orientation in other applications e.g. the default video player or some games that are landscape by default.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fkofilee:
from a sense rom prospective i dont think its possible.

however there might be an app in the market .
[Nook Color General] madyogi:
This has been mentioned in one or two other places I could find, but I thought rather than bury my thoughts deep in a less specific thread, I'd start a new one. Hope it isn't too redundant.

I really love the way highlighting and annotating works in the NC's native reader, but as of right now you can't export those notes/highlights in any usable format, such as an annotated pdf, or something like that. Furthermore, the two pdf's I have opened with NC Reader, while the reading experience is nice, won't allow me to highlight the same way the eBooks do.

My ideal solution would be to find a reader that handles pdf's (and maybe other formats) for me and also allows me to make and save highlights and annotations (basically something like the flash app at crocodoc.com). I would certainly be willing to pay for this if any dev's want to give it a whirl.

Currently, given the fact I have yet to find such an app, I use this solution:

I start with a given pdf. If it is not already live text (meaning it's just a set of scanned images of text), I take it into Acrobat Pro and use OCR to create a clearScan copy, which contains the live text elements separated from any charts/images. From here I take the pdf and convert it to ePub format. This can be done with a free program like Calibre or even over the cloud at a site like 2epub.com. Once you have the ePub doc, you just put it on your NC (I use Dropbox), and it looks just like any other book in your library. I use the Reader app, and I can add highlights/notes until my heart's content.

Of course I still can't save any of my highlights/annotations off the NC this way, but maybe one day B&N will allow for that functionality. There's also the hope they will get a deal worked out to allow Flash content, which would mean I could go back to using crocodoc from a browser to do collaborative highlighting/annotating.

Anybody found a better solution at this point?
[Nook Color General] no_cannabis:
I second this poster. I love having this feature in my Sony Reader, it helps a lot with reading the documentation.