I noticed yesterday that my phone has about 5 dead pixels in a pretty concentrated area. Now I can't stop staring at them! I'm within my 30 days, will Verizon give me a new phone because of that? Also, I've noticed since I've had the phone that on one edge of my screen, there is a small area that is a lot brighter than the rest of the phone. It's hard to notice unless the whole screen is dark, at which point it's quite noticeable.
Hey, I have an idea, why don't you ask Verizon?
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Hello XDA, long time lurker here. Just got a new GSM Galaxy Nexus from negri electronics. Everything is as it should. First thing to do was to check the screen. Using a dead pixel app, I managed to find just one but felt like I could live with it (plus it has to be 5+ to be considered defective for negri electronics exchange).
The problem is I am noticing what seems to be a slight light leak/fade on the upper right hand of the screen. It's really not noticeable in any other colors except for gray/dark gray colors. Unfortunately, most of ICS apps (market, settings) have a band of gray on top which makes the right corner very apparent. I know that the gnex has pentile technology, and it seems that the rest of the screen does exhibit this sort of leakage/fade throughout but it is most obvious on the upper right. I'm not sure if it's attributable to a defective screen or is common amongst gnex
I'm also a bit worried due to negri's exchange policy and whether or not this would qualify. Tried to take a photo with my DSLR, can't capture it well.
Anyone else experience something like this, or noticed inconsistent quality with the display?
I have been a proud owner of an Epic 4G Touch for months now. I love android and I have been around it for a while. Heck, I love my phone so much I wish it were a real boy! ;-)
Sadly, I have been one of the unfortunate few who has had the lines on the screen when waking the phone and now after 3 plus months the egg has finally hatched. Two days ago after turning on the screen to read a text message the lines went down across the phone lock screen one more time for a bit longer than usual this time. This time I noticed a huge difference in the resolution or better put in the darker hues of the phone's display. The richness in color has faded to what seems to be on par with an early capacitive screen.
The darks aren't as rich as before. The blues aren't as blue. I mean even the screen on my old Samsung Moment looks better and I definitely won't compare it to the Evo 4g . To add to this when swiping across homescreen the display flickers. This may be an isolated incident, but I just wanted to let those who have the lines down the screen when waking it to be weary. This could happen to you.
P.S. My eyes aren't playing tricks on me. I took it in for an inspection at a sprint service center and the rep confirmed the noticeable difference.
If the info i read is correct this phone doesnt have 1080 anything or 720 anything. Its 800x480
So I ordered a galaxy nexus on google play.
The screen for the most part looks great.
The greys are better than the galaxy nexus that my mom uses.
However I have noticed two issues.
There is some banding that you can see sort of in the pictures that i attached. Of course it is easier to see in real life than the pictures. IT doesn't really bother me that much though and I think my mom Gnex also has it. Seems to be in all GNex's.
The other issue that bothers me more is the light leakage in the lower left corner of the screen(looking at it in portrait). It is hard to tell in the pictures.
It doesn't really show on a black screen or during anything with colors.
The only time it seems to be very obvious is when in the settings menus. The grey background there for some reason shows it. The lower left corner is just brighter than the rest.
The one pictures shows the phone in landscape orientation, so the bottom left corner is the bottom right of the picture.
I am wondering whether I should return it at this point. It seems silly to me since everything else is pretty acceptable and its really not such a big deal. I don't want to be overly perfectionist with this cause its never gonna be perfect.
What do you guys think?
Thanks for your thoughts.
I think what you're seeing is normal. Mine looks like that from day one. I have slight purple at lowest brightness. Welcome to the internet. The world where normal phenomena can easily be turned into an epidemic and 1WS rules.
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I don't see any unevenness on either of mine in the same settings menu. If you're wanting encouragement to exchange it, then I would offer that encouragement.
The grainy-ness and banding, as you said, seems to be in all of the panels, but i've yet to see one that has brighter spots.
I know the average person wouldn't in a million years notice it.
But I inspect a device when it arrives and look for things like that.
I may just end up giving it to my dad for whom I plan to order a Gnex in any case.
But for me, I can deal with normal imperfections but I don't like things that are obvious like that.
I just got my GN2 today and I noticed pretty fast that there's a constant faint black line that runs across the width of the screen and has one dead pixel on it.
I know I probably cannot fix this without sending the phone away to get repaid. I emailed in to get this seen to. But has anyone had this problem before, and possibly found a solution/cause for it? This is quite annoying, considering it's such an expensive phone.
I don't have any dead pixels and my screen is excelent, but I have this exact same issue that I had with the Note 1. While I'm on my bed about to sleep (what I mean is.. you can only see this when on a dark room, almost pitch black) and I have a grey background I can see black lines on the screen, on my Note 1 they looked like stains, like little drops and on my Note 2 they are lines , 2 on the left corners (bottom and top). They never bottered me because you can't see them under normal use and they don't even seem to affect the screen in any way, but when I found my Note 2 had it too, I don't know, felt a bit dissapointed since it is such a great -and expensive- piece of work. I don't care about it but I though I was the only one. Clearly I'm not. But like I said it doesn't affect my screen in any possible way and you can't see it 99& of the time so I don't care =)
RodriTihuana said:
I don't have any dead pixels and my screen is excelent, but I have this exact same issue that I had with the Note 1. While I'm on my bed about to sleep (what I mean is.. you can only see this when on a dark room, almost pitch black) and I have a grey background I can see black lines on the screen, on my Note 1 they looked like stains, like little drops and on my Note 2 they are lines , 2 on the left corners (bottom and top). They never bottered me because you can't see them under normal use and they don't even seem to affect the screen in any way, but when I found my Note 2 had it too, I don't know, felt a bit dissapointed since it is such a great -and expensive- piece of work. I don't care about it but I though I was the only one. Clearly I'm not. But like I said it doesn't affect my screen in any possible way and you can't see it 99& of the time so I don't care =)
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Yeah I seen a lot of people complaining about that on the original Note. The line doesn't cause any screen issues, it just really irritates me because now that I've seen it, I can't unsee it. That, and a dead pixel is just poor show! Once I return this I'm going to buy the UK LTE version, if possible. The UK LTE situation is terrible right now, though.
I've had my phone about a week and the screen is fine when I'm inside. But I noticed on the way home from work (I walk from my work, about 10 minutes away) that the more I took my phone out, the more I noticed horizontal banding. It freaked me out a bit (I bought this phone from Swappa), but as I got back in a warm environment, the banding went away. Went back out for a run and it did the same thing.
My question is:
1. Is this normal behavior for AMOLED screens, for this device, or is it a defect?
2. Will this temperature change hurt the phone? I live in Wisconsin and odds are it's going to be cold a lot.
3. Should I get a snuggie for my phone?
Never noticed any banding, perhaps i'm not really looking for it.
Will look out for it when my phone gets back from the service center..
Take mine skiing all the time. No banding.
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Never noticed any banding, perhaps i'm not really looking for it.
Will look out for it when my phone gets back from the service center..
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Well I've read up a bit on horizontal banding and i know it's common with this phone. But I've never had anyone say it's temp related.
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I noticed this as well with my phone. I had horizontal banding all the time, but the banding seemed to be more pronounced when the phone was cold.
I returned it for a screen replacement under warranty and just got it back about a week ago. The banding is now gone and I don't see it when the phone is cold, either. I don't think the banding is normal but, if it is occurring, it can be made more noticeable when the phone gets cold.
Breaking news : the GN screen is crap.*
*there aren't any existing threads about it on XDA, not a single one. /s
When you say banding do you me slightly darker stripes (almost like shadows) or do you mean bright white horizontal stripes where no information can be seen.
I live in the north of Sweden and often subjected my old Galaxy S to -10 to -20°C. I would quite often see white banding or rows of white pixels. These always disappeared whed the phone was taken inside. The phone still works faultlessly today.
For me, the horizontal bands were linear "shadows" of lower screen-brightness alternating with linear areas of normal brightness. There is no loss of information.
After the screen replacement, I would say the screen is as nice as on any phone I've used. My last phone was a Nexus One, and the new screen is comparable in quality to the one on the N1.