Is there a way that a dev can produce a apk or zip that will allow the abilliity to change the colors of the back and setting buttons of the GS3? Not sure if this has been discussed before or even a thread for this topic.. Just wanted to be able to change the color and use something other than white.
It's hardware wise you can't do it unless you take the phone apart. If we were able to do it on the vibrant then we would already have the option on the siii
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The blacklight is white and only white unless you open it up like the guy above me said and paint it with a marker or weld a different led. I've seen it done on HTC amaze
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Question why would you want the light on? We all know where they are and what function it does, it's not like every time the screen goes on it will change the function
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Question why would you want the light on? We all know where they are and what function it does, it's not like every time the screen goes on it will change the function
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I used to think the same thing till my gf used my phone and asked how to go back lol. I have it on for 6 seconds now so she doesnt get confused. Samsung really did a good job hiding the buttons when its not lit.
But to the OP...ya cant do it unless you open it up and color it or put a colored film on top the LED.
Wait you trust your gf with your phone?? Lol
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Wait you trust your gf with your phone?? Lol
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With 100% supervision duh lol. Luckily its just once in a great while when she's having trouble looking up stuff on her Blackberry lol.
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Yesterday a teacher of mine took my phone and when I got home the screen started to fizzle. It has a blue-ish tint now and washed out colors.
What can be the problem & how can it be fixed w/o going to sprint?
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Definitely a hardware issue. If you have TEP then it should be free to fix and 35 if not (bill the teacher lol). Take it to a sprint repair center.
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What happens when u press the screen? And can u see anything on the screen except those colors?
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I got insurance on my phone I just don't want to go to sprint and deal with the Q&A and 3hr wait. Can I make claim with asursion and not be charged since I have insurance ?
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What happens when u press the screen? And can u see anything on the screen except those colors?
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The areas where I touch is regular, but the colors are all washed out or have a blue or yellow tint by default. My screen isn't cracked if you were thinking that.
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You actually give the phone to the teacher? Wow, much has changed since I've gone to school.
This is why I don't trust people with $500 phones...
Your best bet is to go though Sprint, like others have said.
Gavisann said:
You actually give the phone to the teacher? Wow, much has changed since I've gone to school.
This is why I don't trust people with $500 phones...
Your best bet is to go though Sprint, like others have said.
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I make sure to keep an extra POS phone from years ago to give to them ... or my last phone that's deactivated
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Are there any bubbles on the screen? I'm trying to figure out if ur teacher dropped the phone and didn't tell u, or if they got any liquid in the phone. Because that sounds like a screen bleeding problem.
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Since I'm in a nearly all girls semi-strict high school we could get suspensed or kicked out for not obeying the teachers(men are treated in my school like a black man in the 40s no rights at all) . And I'm thinking the teacher put pressure on the screen when he took it away from my friend, I seen him put it in his pocket with other people phones. When I approached him about it he denied it, which I knew he would do.
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Are there any bubbles on the screen? I'm trying to figure out if ur teacher dropped the phone and didn't tell u, or if they got any liquid in the phone. Because that sounds like a screen bleeding problem.
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There's no bubbles it's just the color is so off
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ok...yes, the screen has a bleeding problem. it's from the inner part of the screen. he put to much pressure on it. it's like when you press your finger on a computer screen and you get that funny discolorization... thats what happened. can you see the normal stuff on the screen though? or is there to much color on it?
this is a slight hardware problem that is sometimes fixable.
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ok...yes, the screen has a bleeding problem. it's from the inner part of the screen. he put to much pressure on it. it's like when you press your finger on a computer screen and you get that funny discolorization... thats what happened. can you see the normal stuff on the screen though? or is there to much color on it?
this is a slight hardware problem that is sometimes fixable.
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yea it's a bleeding problem. i can still see the screen though, i'ma take it to sprint on Sunday. I tried odining to see will that do anything, but it didn't
Just make sure ur phone is back to stock b4 u take it to sprint, otherwise they won't even look at it
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Odin corrects software issues, not hardware
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Odin corrects software issues, not hardware
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I know just being a lil wishful and thanks
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no problem, glad to be of help.
http://www.motoringcrunch.com/news/mobile-tech/9868-samsung-galaxy-android-40-ice-cream-sandwich-mwc
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The buttons aren't on the screen. Fake.
This is old news. It's been proven to be fake. Not bad looking though
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This is old news. It's been proven to be fake. Not bad looking though
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Oh yeah? Never ram into a thread about it here b4. Just saw the GS3 one. But yea it is nice! I would get it if turns out real
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Oh yeah? Never ram into a thread about it here b4. Just saw the GS3 one. But yea it is nice! I would get it if turns out real
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Not on xda but on several tech sites like android central and such. It's photoshopped.
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It could be something upcoming. I snapped this in NYC...edit..$499 if you are curious
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It's photoshopped.
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i totally agree, its photoshop.
who is the idiot who could render such a beautiful device (ics keys as capacitive at bottom) yet the app drawer icon looks like poo? i JUST learned cs4 2 weeks ago and i coulda done better with the icon...
Ok let's just say it is fake... But what if Samsung decides to make the ics buttons into capacitive buttons and not built in to the screen like the nexus? From my understanding they always **** up Android to their liking so I wouldn't put it past them. I'm sure (to them) anything is better to differentiate them from the rest.
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Ok let's just say it is fake... But what if Samsung decides to make the ics buttons into capacitive buttons and not built in to the screen like the nexus? From my understanding they always **** up Android to their liking so I wouldn't put it past them. I'm sure (to them) anything is better to differentiate them from the rest.
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No way that picture is real
Not even .000000000000001% chance
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No way that picture is real
Not even .000000000000001% chance
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Lol!
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Ok let's just say it is fake... But what if Samsung decides to make the ics buttons into capacitive buttons and not built in to the screen like the nexus? From my understanding they always **** up Android to their liking so I wouldn't put it past them. I'm sure (to them) anything is better to differentiate them from the rest.
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I'm not a big fan of the on screen buttons anyway so I wouldn't mind that.
Just noticed on my phone earlier when i unlocked it that i hat a red dot near the bottom. Ran a pixel test i found on the market and it shows up on any background and my brightness setting doesn't affect it. Is there any way i can fix this?
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Press hard on the screen where the stuck pixel is so the screen distorts in that area and hold for 10 or so seconds. Thats how ive done it for my lcd monitors and its worked.
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Press hard on the screen where the stuck pixel is so the screen distorts in that area and hold for 10 or so seconds. Thats how ive done it for my lcd monitors and its worked.
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I wouldn't do it...
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Press hard on the screen where the stuck pixel is so the screen distorts in that area and hold for 10 or so seconds. Thats how ive done it for my lcd monitors and its worked.
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That wouldn't work anyways cause the screen it under a hard glass cover. Also its not a true lcd screen its an oled screen
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Maybe an app could be developed that uses the device gpu/cpu to mimic the effects of Pixel Tuneup?
I can't link because i'm new, but it's pixeltuneup[dot]com.
Just a thought. If this turns out to be a widespread issue, a simple app might be something people would pay a buck or two for. From what I understand, PT just puts out a calibrated video signal that is good at fixing pixel issues.
Ill have to give that a look and maybe contact the developer. Its not that bad of a problem but i always find myself staring at it lol
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So does anyone else have a possible idea? I've looked all over Google recently and can't find much about fixing oled screens.
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I supposed you've tried the screen calibrators that flash a whole bunch of colors. Thats would really be my only advice. If it doesn't work out a warranty replacement would be my last resort
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Yea I've tried a few if those already and left each one run for about an hour. As for a replacement i wouldn't be able to do since i just got this one after my last one broke. Also I've have this phone for a little over one month or so :/
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Yea I've tried a few if those already and left each one run for about an hour. As for a replacement i wouldn't be able to do since i just got this one after my last one broke. Also I've have this phone for a little over one month or so :/
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So why can't you get a replacement ? The phone is to be free of defects for a year, even if you already replaced it. Stuck pixels are a manufacturing defect which is covered under the warranty. If you got it in store, go back to the store. If you got it from 611 or online call the 1800 number and tell them.
Ah ok i see what you mean now. My next issue would be to find a stock 2.3.6 Rom
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Hey guys I was just messing around on my phone when a question came up and hit me in the head...is there anyway to change the color of the soft keys? Like make them red or blue or rainbow idk...is it even possible or is it part of the screen where you can't just take it apart change some bulbs and be good to go?
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Hey guys I was just messing around on my phone when a question came up and hit me in the head...is there anyway to change the color of the soft keys? Like make them red or blue or rainbow idk...is it even possible or is it part of the screen where you can't just take it apart change some bulbs and be good to go?
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Not possible
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rainbow lol sorry but i don't think that,s possible. those LED light are probably integrated on the motherboard circuit.
It really wouldnt be that hard if your confident at disassembling and reassembling your phone. Being a skilled solderer would probably be a good idea aswell.
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Couldn't really tell from the teardown pics. But I'm sure if you find the right diode you can solder the different colored L.E.D. I noticed my cousin's L.E.D. lights on his Skyrocket are more of a cool blue tone instead of white white like ours for this touch keys. I wish ours was more like that. But I'm not about to take my phone apart in case I ever need to do a warranty exchange/fix.
LOL Rainbow would be so epic lmao
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LOL Rainbow would be so epic lmao
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That's what I'm saying!
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Easy to do.
Remove screen.
Purchase red, green, yellow etc. saran-wrap.
Cut small strip and place directly on l.e.d's
Reassemble phone
I did it with a my touch while back. Changed trackball color
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcUfIx6L5ns
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Also maybe just coloring the backside of the actual screen right on the reverse side of the capacative buttons in theory it should work no prob:beer:
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My wife let out 2 year old play with her phone. He threw it on the ground and now the screen looks like this. Any ideas?
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Damaged digitizer. Not cheap to fix.
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My wife let out 2 year old play with her phone. He threw it on the ground and now the screen looks like this. Any ideas?
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It may not be the Digitizer. This phone has had a lot of abuse hurled at it by various members of Toddler class. It has time and again proved to be solid.
Just to rule on hardware or software issue, can you comment on if there are any other issues except display ? Also did the 2 year old threw on hard concrete or carpet ?
Haven't noticed any problems but the screen and he threw it on tile floor
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It may not be the Digitizer. This phone has had a lot of abuse hurled at it by various members of Toddler class. It has time and again proved to be solid.
Just to rule on hardware or software issue, can you comment on if there are any other issues except display ? Also did the 2 year old threw on hard concrete or carpet ?
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Well just about 25% of the status bar is black as well as part of the screen. I'm sure rebooting the device or doing a factory reset isn't going to fix it.
But hey let's see. Supamike88 boot into recovery and see if the issue with the display is present there. To get into recovery press and hold volume up, home button and the power button and release them when the phone vibrates and you see blue text in the upper left corner of the screen (which in this case you might not see because of the screen). Is the issue still present?
You could do a factory reset to see if it fixes the screen, just back up everything before doing so.
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The whole screen is pretty much black now
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Supamike88 said:
The whole screen is pretty much black now
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Are you not able to turn on at all ? If that's the case, then its probably goner.
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The whole screen is pretty much black now
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If the screen is black but the phone still works, then its most likely the digitizer like I pointed out earlier.
You can buy a new digitizer and replace it, but its not really recommended. You might as well get another S3.
You could also just sell it for parts and try to get another S3. (I wouldn't recommend this unless you can do a factory reset).
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Are you not able to turn on at all ? If that's the case, then its probably goner.
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I called T-Mobile and they're gonna send me a new one. Luckily their isn't a crack on the screen so it doesn't look like something we did
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I called T-Mobile and they're gonna send me a new one. Luckily their isn't a crack on the screen so it doesn't look like something we did
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Good for you. Please note, when you get the new device back, carefully read the label behind the battery. You may get SGH-T999L instead of existing SGH-T999. The L stands for LTE. If that happens, you will be in luck. But need to understand its not the same device but rather newer version.