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[Q] Black Blobs under Screen

I just got my Galaxy s2 and i've noticed some odd black blogs on the screen. They are only visiable in lower lighting while on darker screens. They arent dead pixels, its like... on the inside of your windshield on your car, if you wipe a little spot it looks like the glass is kind of smokey and then super clear where you wiped, thats what this looks like but smaller. So there are all these black spots under the glass on my phone.
i did read an article on suction cup prints, light spots, finger prints and so on on the inside of these displays..
i've already contacted support on it and they need me to send back this one and then they will send out my new one since im still in my 14 day remorse period.
Just wanted to know if anyone else has noticed/had this problem?

Yes, I just spoke to Tmobile and they said I could exchange in store since I'm within remorse period.
I'm going tomorrow
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o0pyroguy0o said:
I just got my Galaxy s2 and i've noticed some odd black blogs on the screen. They are only visiable in lower lighting while on darker screens. They arent dead pixels, its like... on the inside of your windshield on your car, if you wipe a little spot it looks like the glass is kind of smokey and then super clear where you wiped, thats what this looks like but smaller. So there are all these black spots under the glass on my phone.
i did read an article on suction cup prints, light spots, finger prints and so on on the inside of these displays..
i've already contacted support on it and they need me to send back this one and then they will send out my new one since im still in my 14 day remorse period.
Just wanted to know if anyone else has noticed/had this problem?
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do you happen to have pictures?

I have the same thing but its in the middle. Its like a curved line looks like smoke. I can see it in dark gray pictures or background
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Look at it on this pic its shows better
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I had the same issue on my first GS2. I returned it and got a 2nd GS2 with a perfect screen with no vertical lines or black blobs issue. Good luck!

Looking closely at mine in a very dark room while starting a youtube, I noticed it. Didn't think I had it but I guess I do. I notice it for a split second when the video is about to start. Another way I saw it was there is a bug with the status bar brightness control. Sometimes the screen goes dark when trying to lower brightness. When that happens, you will see the blobs on the screen. It has to be real dark too. I did it under the covers at night. Really gotta look close. I had blobs or black and just lines everywhere.

T989 Screen issues.
I upgraded to the T989 Galaxy S II and found the same issue on it. You will notice that the backlight isn't right. It's brighter than it should be - gives a fuzzy glow. There are also black blotches on the screen...all over it actually. Enough to annoy you when you are trying to watch a movie in the dark. I returned that one thinking ok maybe it's just that one. My second one...SAME ISSUE. Even worse this time...there were verticle lines running top to bottom. Quite visible lines.
On the first return, the Tmobile reps compared my T989 with my i9100 while viewing a blank black screen (can be produced by taking a photo with your phone against your jeans or shirt then viewing it in full screen). They confirmed the issue to be true.
On the second return, other Tmobile reps also compared the T989 with my i9100 and confirmed the issue as well. One rep had a T989 and hers also had the issue. I then checked the store display model. Same issue as well.
If this is something you can live with, then just keep it. It doesn't seem to happen clearly if you turn your brightness above max or don't watch movies or use the phone in the dark.
There is a significant color difference between the T989 and i9100. The color of the message bar was compared between the two. The i9100 showed a true blue while the T989 had a faded/greenish blue tint to it. The difference is noticable in any brightness. Keep in mind that both phones have SUPER AMOLED PLUS screens.
I'm assuming all the T989s have this issue due to the manufacturer having messed something up during production.
If you would like to contact me for more information regarding my experience with this issue, please email me at : [email protected]ase do not ask me to run any test on the T989 for I have since returned it to the store and will never buy another T989. I'm sticking with my original i9100 Galaxy S II.

I had the black blobs on my first device.. Returned it and my second device is PERFECT. Beautiful screen, no blobs, couldn't be happier. Love this phone! Best Android device I have ever owned.. And I'm a very picky person.
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Same here... ill return this on Monday.. I just hope for a better one.. or should I return and wait for nexus by Nov.
pinadala gamit ang galaxy s2 (premium xda)

ingenious247 said:
I had the black blobs on my first device.. Returned it and my second device is PERFECT.
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What is the date on the box of your 2nd device? I've got two phones 9/28 and 9/29 and both have blotches and vertical lines like in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18676273 . The 9/28 is worse. I've heard that 10/1 and beyond devices have fixed this manufacturing defect. Can you please confirm?

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What is the date on the box of your 2nd device? I've got two phones 9/28 and 9/29 and both have blotches and vertical lines like in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18676273 . The 9/28 is worse. I've heard that 10/1 and beyond devices have fixed this manufacturing defect. Can you please confirm?
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My perfect one is from 09/28
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This seems to be a common issue with Samsung's amoled screens. I've owned two Vibrants, a Captivate and now the Tmobile GSII and all of them have displayed this issue. If you get one without the blobs then you really got lucky.

continue here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1300879

Galaxy Nexus Screen - What's Normal, What's Not. (Photos!)

Got the Nexus today and having no experience with the AMOLED screens (iPhones and EVO before) I'm not sure what is considered normal and what is defective. I know there are plenty of threads about this, but very few examples.
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Viewing Angle - UPDATE: My new Nexus has much less tint when viewed at an angle. *Colors adjusted to match as close as possible in Adobe Lightroom - and they are very close.
Viewing Angle - At extreme angles the screen with produce an iridescent effect.
Courtesy of TAMIM2007 - Left Galaxy nexus / right Galaxy 1
Courtesy of iansmith
Galaxy Nexus OLED's with a black screen showing red and green pixels are indeed slightly lit even though it should be "black" (15 second exposure).
Galaxy Nexus "black" vs LCD "black" (15 second exposure).
THESE ARE DEFECTS Exchange these phones... You shouldn't have to live like this!​
Courtesy of asb123 - Tint Fade at 0% brightness.
Courtesy of staticx57 - Black spots on a dark screen. Very common issue, odds are your replacement screen will have these, too.
Courtesy of blackhand1001 - Image Retention issues.
Courtesy of tonnytech - Banding and Transparent Lines
If other people want to add their own pictures for analysis I'll try and add them to the first post so people new to the AMOLED world can feel better about theirs/exchange for a new one.

I'm seeing the same thing with the whites. They almost feel like they have a yellow hue to them.
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normal with a pentile display same thing happened with the nexus s the rgb settings arent exactly correct

Aye completely normal. It's what a high-definition Pentile screen looks like.

Well, that answers that then.
Thanks guys.

Is this really supposed to be normal? I'm not convinced yet.

I came from a SGS2 and I can say the banding/lines/grey dots are much worse. The S2 seemed more glossy and colours seemed richer than the matt styled newspaper type of screen that the nexus has. I am quite annoyed as this was not mentioned in any of then reviews.
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very useful post, thanks OP. i just picked up the gn two days ago, and the screen is bothering me as well. i havent done as rigorous testing as the OP, but i definitely notice similar banding at lower brightnesses. from what it sounds like, it is normal.
i came from a nexus s 4g and gs2, i've never noticed this problem with AMOLEDs in the past. very disappointing so far.

wadyas said:
I came from a SGS2 and I can say the banding/lines/grey dots are much worse. The S2 seemed more glossy and colours seemed richer than the matt styled newspaper type of screen that the nexus has. I am quite annoyed as this was not mentioned in any of then reviews.
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that's because the sgs2 does not use pentile, it uses full rgb, at the cost of a considerably lower resolution.

Updated post to include an up close look at the PenTile display pixels. Appears the same as all the others FWIW.

nice thread, i think you should change the title and have a mod to sticky it, this helps people not starting useless threads about their display showing tint of yellow/blue/grey etc.

I think the sticky is a good idea as well. Not sure what i would need to change in the title though.
Who knows a mod? LOL

I wish I had seen this thread sooner. It almost seems like no one else is complaining about this issue. I'm afraid to turn in my GNex for replacement because I'm afraid the replacement will be much worse than this.

For some reasons, the AMOLED on Samsung phones (GS, GSII, etc.) are not that great with the stock settings Samsung pre-set.
Just wait until supercurio (the guy behind voodoo project) works his voodoo magic on the GN's AMOLED.
You'll be amazed.

andythefan said:
I wish I had seen this thread sooner. It almost seems like no one else is complaining about this issue. I'm afraid to turn in my GNex for replacement because I'm afraid the replacement will be much worse than this.
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For what it's worth I actually took mine back for a replacement since I had what looked almost like a fingerprint under the glass - and my replacement is somewhat better.
The blue hue when seen at an angle is a little less blue and the "linen" effect is a little more subdued as well. It's definitely still there though but I think it's worth it.
Oh why didn't they just make it standard RGB like the Galaxy S II?

chjade84 said:
For what it's worth I actually took mine back for a replacement since I had what looked almost like a fingerprint under the glass - and my replacement is somewhat better.
The blue hue when seen at an angle is a little less blue and the "linen" effect is a little more subdued as well. It's definitely still there though but I think it's worth it.
Oh why didn't they just make it standard RGB like the Galaxy S II?
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i've returned my galaxy nexus three time to the shop, and been through 5 units in the shop, problems were bright pixels, scratched screen inside and outside, random movement of the screen (like someone has been touching the screen continuously), in all cases the screen looked ok, just like the photos shown in first post, except for one that had a tint of purple/pink along the top of the screen(can only be seen in grey settings and dark rooms).
about the RGB, i dont think they have the technology to make super HD amoled display with RGB at low cost yet, but thats by guess.

I went to my local Verizon store, and all of the display models looked like this. A sales person let me compare to his phone, and his looked like this also.
Seems like this is just the new standard I guess, or maybe some of us have sensitive eyes.

RickROM said:
I went to my local Verizon store, and all of the display models looked like this. A sales person let me compare to his phone, and his looked like this also.
Seems like this is just the new standard I guess, or maybe some of us have sensitive eyes.
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It's one of those things that once you see it you can't unsee it and it will always bother you. I had the rezound before my nexus and the capacitive buttons all leaked light onto the screens. I had to point out this fact to the sales guy cause he didnt see it. Once he did he checked all of the display models and they all had the same problem.
That being said, all phones now a days seem to have some "problem" with them and sadly you need to pick the problems that seem to bother you the least.

As excited as I was for this phone, the screen alone made me return it. It's awful. It was sad comping it to my Palm Pre Plus of all instantly being amazed at how much better that screen looked compared to the Galaxy Nexus. I was never expecting to see a grainy screen full of banding.
It's also annoying no review pointed this out. I've always been annoyed at how vague most phone reviews are and the fact so many reviews just seem like they really aren't tech savvy because issues like this should be pointed out. The fact that I've read numerous reviews say the screen is absolutely gorgeous really makes me wonder if these reviewers are scared to be critical in fear of losing review units. Reviews should be critical and be picky about specifics so we don't have to discover these things after we purchase the phone.

I'm really not that impressed with the screen overall. Every unit I have seen (9) has had some issue with color consistency across the screen, or banding that never goes away at any brightness (let alone the linen effect). The screen on my fascinate (galaxy s) is downright amazing, with whites as bright as an iPhone 4 and great vibrancy. The galaxy nexus screen (every one I have seen) is washed out and yellow in comparison, almost like it has a disgusting tan film covering the screen). By itself it looks pretty good, but side by side with any other device (IPS or my galaxy s's pentile amoled) it looks like complete crap. I really don't know how Samsung screwed this up so badly and can only hope the color temperature can be changed via software to get rid of the disgusting yellow tint.

One X's screen compared with SGNote and HD2

I'm no professional photographer or reviewr, I just asked a friend his D-SLR Olympus. Don't take this photos as an absolute truth.
Galaxy Note is on ICS Stunner 5.0 (screen mode standard + UI). HD2 on tytung CM9 v1.5. One X on latest stock OTA 1.28...
I find One X yellower on photos than in "real life", though I recognize that, at least, my unit has a yellowish tone. I find GNote (and Amoled screens) more stressfull to the eyes than other two, it's too vibrant, though it isn't noticeable on photos. GNote has some issues with blacks (blocks on images and movies).
First pictures are also useful those keen to e-reading, since they compare text displayed by Nook Touch, Samsung Galaxy Note, HTC One X and HTC HD2.
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Nightmode Minimum brightness
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With display tester:

The camera you used appears to be making a very grey look anyway.
I mean, the One X looks grey in your pictures?

I have a grey One X.

I mean, the One X looks grey in your pictures?
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I thought maybe he has a grey one..
I have a grey One X.
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Muwhahahahahaha

DomCowell said:
The camera you used appears to be making a very grey look anyway.
I mean, the One X looks grey in your pictures?
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LOL

mine also is yellowish tint rather than my old sensation.. got my friends envious with the HOX.. they got SGS2 and note.. the screen of HOX blow them away and with the cam..

The HOX screen is fantastic - had to wait a while for a big non-pentile, high pixel density screen, but it was worth the wait!
Note could have been great if it was not pentile. Wonder if the GS3 screen will match or beat the HOX screen?

myself11 said:
I find One X yellower on photos than in "real life", though I recognize that, at least, my unit has a yellowish tone.
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Your specific One X appears yellower than most. I had two side-by-side and one was a little less yellow than yours and the other was genuinely cool. Even with that, the cool one is still warmer than the whites on my G-Tab 10.1's IPS display. Samsung just loves to amplify colors regardless of the technology used. Seeing flesh tones that look like flesh on the One X is a refreshing change from my i9100. The display on the One X (at least mine) is the best I've seen on a (non-Apple) portable device. Second would probably be a tie between LG's S-IPS and SAMOLED+. I'm anxious to see SAMOLED+ HD when it comes out on the SGS3.
Here are some pics of mine (the cool one) taken with a Lumix FX500 using LCD Tester...
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That HOX screen is definatelly too yellow. Out of theose three mobile phones seems that GN has the most neutral greys, hence the most accurate color reproduction.
I'm just wondering why is HOX so far off to the yellow, and some are nicely white. Are they using different screen hardware? It's a really weird problem. Ih could be corrected via software, but I don't know if android OS supports screen color profiles.

myself11 said:
I find One X yellower on photos than in "real life"
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Cameras use the brightest spot on the picture as their white point in auto settings most of the time so you should try to set the white balance on the DSLR first. Then set the brightness value of the 2 brightest phone screens until they match the 3rd one (~ white level): by doing that you can compare the contast (~ black level) and color reproduction with less error.

Thanks for the tip and I'm going to try it, but, unfortunately, I come more and more to realise that I really have a yellow-ish screen.
For instance, One X tested by sweedroid has normal whites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YzFbVvscrEo#!

myself11 said:
Thanks for the tip and I'm going to try it, but, unfortunately, I come more and more to realise that I really have a yellow-ish screen.
For instance, One X tested by sweedroid has normal whites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YzFbVvscrEo#!
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As I said, setting white balance is important because it determinates what is the white reference. In your video, the Xperia S screen looks blue-ish. If the white balance was set from the Xperia screen, the One X screen would look yellow-ish.
And your impression depends also on your monitor ability to render color correctly .

My first HOX looked a little like that, but not that heavily yellowish. My current HOX tho shows a really good white and way more contrast. Tho its still a little warmer than previous devices I owned, its much more enjoyable to look at.
Also: Like on your photos, the colors not only seem yellowish, but also washed out. Same was with my previous device.
There was a faulty batch with faulty screens. You rly should consider taking that device back for a new one, since its a hardware fault.

I don't think the pics posted by op shows the correct comparison because I have an iPhone 4s and my one x is brighter and equally white while the one x shown in the op is strangely yellow and have owned galaxy nexus and galaxy s2 to know that screens of amoled can never compare to brightness of LCD

My hox display isn't yellow in the slightest. Looks much better than my Galaxy Nexus.
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The more I look at my device I cant work out if it has a yellowish tinge or is just pure white. And I have no other device to test it against. Should never have read this thread lol

There seems to be two types of screen in HOX.
I got my first two phones yellow tinted like the one in first post. Have returned both and my third device is perfect. No yellow tint. Pure awesome white for whites. I'm very happy now. Current device is black taiwan made HT24 Batch.
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Mine is crearly yellow, HT23 batch. Did you returned saying it was to yellow? Did they accept that as a valid reason?

myself11 said:
Mine is crearly yellow, HT23 batch. Did you returned saying it was to yellow? Did they accept that as a valid reason?
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The first one of mine had more visible yellow spots on top of screen. Other than that the screen had yellow tint in general. They replaced for yellow spots.
Second device also had yellow tint and i was thinking for a reason. Fortunately it had a very minor scratch 1-2mm inside of the screen. Since i informed them the same day and the scratch was not outside, they replaced again. FYI, its not easy to convince service center for replacement here in Dubai and i had to speak a lot

Image burn on lovely Epic 4g Touch screen...

So after reading that the reason that the super amoled screen was used in the GS3 was for "longevity".. I read somewhere in the comments that the SAMOLED+ screens suffer from some image burn... but wait... my phone has one of those....
Then I recalled that over the past few days I noticed that the top of the screen of my phone has been "shaded" a bit... so i whipped it out.. found a white picture and and sure enough. right at the top where the status bar is... it's shaded a bit. it's very faint right now... but it's definitely darker than the rest of the screen...
thoughts? anyone else experiencing this?

I don't have that problem (yet) but I was wondering if its covered under warranty?

btate0121 said:
So after reading that the reason that the super amoled screen was used in the GS3 was for "longevity".. I read somewhere in the comments that the SAMOLED+ screens suffer from some image burn... but wait... my phone has one of those....
Then I recalled that over the past few days I noticed that the top of the screen of my phone has been "shaded" a bit... so i whipped it out.. found a white picture and and sure enough. right at the top where the status bar is... it's shaded a bit. it's very faint right now... but it's definitely darker than the rest of the screen...
thoughts? anyone else experiencing this?
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Yup. It happens. The pixel inactivity seems to be the culprit.
Happened on my nexus s sporting an amoled display and I figured it was bound to happen to the gs2. And of course, it has.
Its one of those things you don't really notice unless youre looking for it, though. So just don't think about it and enjoy the phone.
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barnacles10 said:
Yup. It happens. The pixel inactivity seems to be the culprit.
Happened on my nexus s sporting an amoled display and I figured it was bound to happen to the gs2. And of course, it has.
Its one of those things you don't really notice unless youre looking for it, though. So just don't think about it and enjoy the phone.
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If he's anything like me, once its there that's all hell see, like a scratch on the screen or a bad ding on the phone. Once I noticed the crooked screen on my evo3d, it drove me nuts. Actually I just checked and I also have a slight discoloration along the top of the screen.
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Happened to the status bar of my og epic.
Since I've had my et4g, I have made sure to go full screen mode whenever possible (go launcher settings). So far haven't noticed any burn in.
This is also the reason why I still prefer GB over ics's designated onscreen buttons(maybe I'm just paranoid). Not to mention, more screen estate for viewing pleasure.

OLED technology from day 1 was a burn in technology. Unlike LCD's (and LED-LCD's, LED TV's are used in billboards not your house) with a black light shining through colored pixels which are darkened by liquid crystal which are subject to total backlight failure, age. The component of OLED has a lifespan on a per pixel basis.
Blues over all the various OLED tech's have the shortest lifespan. My laptop has an OLED display on it for information its a Teal color and its rather toasty

Yeah it's real simple to see if you want into any store with some smartphones on display that use OLED... those screens are destroyed most of the time

Cant you put up a pure white image fullscreen for extended time period to reduce the effects of image burn, or does this only work on other types of screens?

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Cant you put up a pure white image fullscreen for extended time period to reduce the effects of image burn, or does this only work on other types of screens?
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On OLED you actually want to display an inverse image of whatever is burned in. You need to burn the rest of the pixels to match the current state. White would probably still have a decent effect but I am not 100% certain. I have a really cruddy LCD that I have to do that for its really weird.

Rich3077 said:
I don't have that problem (yet) but I was wondering if its covered under warranty?
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I have that problem now, and i wonder if it is covered by warranty...

Unequal pixel degradation. Lol
This happened really badly on my first epic 4g. They gave me a new on. For it too. Here is the thread where it was discussed, as well as pictures.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/sprint-epic-4g/135478-anybody-wanna-see-image-burnt-my-screen.html
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Happened to me. I can see the outline of my keyboard after I send a message and the keyboard goes down. It kinda makes me sad but that's normal I guess.

Ya. Mine was the samsung home dock apps and clock.
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Reading all this makes me sad.
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TEP
If you have TEP, this is a defect covered by TEP. Therefore you should be able to walk in to a repair shop and show it to a manager. Now I am afraid it is going to do it to me. Somehow, as I use the official rom, the auto brightness setting begins to get set so low that I cant read it. So I would have to go manually set it all the way up and then turn on the automatic brightness.

Blu3Fr0g said:
Now I am afraid it is going to do it to me.
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If you don't leave the screen on for unnecessary periods of time showing one thing you will be better off. I don't know if the guy with the dock or the dock itself has the screen not turning off. But having it display a static menu especially on high brightness for very long periods of time will destroy it quick.
Watching video for example is very random on wear and would not show up like a menu. Would average in wear like any other use.

I downloaded this and it works. Touch your screen to change the colors. Fortunately, my screen is good to go.
Screen Test

RainMotorsports said:
If you don't leave the screen on for unnecessary periods of time showing one thing you will be better off. I don't know if the guy with the dock or the dock itself has the screen not turning off. But having it display a static menu especially on high brightness for very long periods of time will destroy it quick.
Watching video for example is very random on wear and would not show up like a menu. Would average in wear like any other use.
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The samsung dock app didn't let the screen turn off while it was docked.
I'm not sure if that is still going on with it, but I switched to alarn clock plus app. It dims and then moves around the clock a little bit every few minutes to avoid having the image in the same place causing burn in.
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I just noticed this today on mine. I am too lazy to go in and try to get a sprint guy to see what I see and get a replacement. Kind of alarming though because my phone is only 6 months old...

My girlfriends old fascinate had this issue. Was pretty annoying but my epic touch seems fine for now. I heard not turning up the brightness real high helps.
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White 32gb Light Bleed? With pic.

I've now had about 6 of the white gs3 from t-mobile. I have had 1 16gb (it didn't have bleed). The other 5 (32gb) has had this bleed from the buttons in some way. It's worse in person than in pictures, but you can get an idea.
I've also had one where you could see the insides of the phone from an improper seal where the screen meets the bottom by the lights (screen meeting white trim).
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Am I the only person to notice this? I'm pretty picky, but this (especially the right one) is totally unacceptable. Video or a dark background at night makes it stick out like a sore thumb.

The one on the bottom, you're being a little picky. The one on the side is legitimate...but why not just turn off the LEDs and save yourself some hassle?

Felnarion said:
The one on the bottom, you're being a little picky. The one on the side is legitimate...but why not just turn off the LEDs and save yourself some hassle?
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They're worse in person. So basically don't use the lights? Eff that.

The_Biz said:
They're worse in person. So basically don't use the lights? Eff that.
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I agree, if I was paying for a $700 device I would want it perfect. I get mine (White 32gb) Friday and will report my findings. I have a strong feeling i'm gonna go back to blue.

How have you had so many GS3's? I'm not shocked though because this was discussed to no end when the phone was first released. I'm sure they could have prevented this by using a dark film underneath the screen with a masked cut out for the menu and back keys. But what do I know about manufacturing. Maybe they see this as a bonus feature?

Paging Dr B said:
this was discussed to no end when the phone was first released.
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I never saw it discussed. I'll have a blue tomorrow and see if that has it like the white's do. If not, I'll stay with the blue. I'd rather have a purple button than light bleeding.

The_Biz said:
I never saw it discussed. I'll have a blue tomorrow and see if that has it like the white's do. If not, I'll stay with the blue. I'd rather have a purple button than light bleeding.
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You're not going to have that problem with the blue one, If I'm right I think most white phones has the same problem, I know my friends white skyrocket has it.

Yikes... That's a nasty light bleed

I noticed this on my white GS2 as well but I got the blue for my GS3. My wife has the white but it doesn't look that bad to me.
I think this is a tough problem to conquer for everyone. Remember how long the white IP4 was delayed?
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thats nothing compared to the bleed on the Amaze 4G, but i get what you saying, we paying so much money for a phone, everything should be perfect

I wanted the White, but this is why I chose the blue. That would of drove me nuts!!
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Yea i think all the white ones will ultimately have it to some degree. The skyrocket also has it and so does the sgh-t989 (white model) the dark colored phones such as black and blue kind of hide this.....i have a white one and mine bleed but im not returning it because of that that is just a little to anal. Now if the screen was bleeding then thats a different story. Il tell u what though id love to make them brighter somehow! My T989 keys were super bright

sarni84 said:
tell u what though id love to make them brighter somehow! My T989 keys were super bright
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I thought the same thing until I compared my capacitive keys to my buddy's (we both have pebble blue) and his were much brighter than mine. I'm going to compare mine to some store models and if it's the same deal I'm swapping mine out.
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ThC23 said:
I wanted the White, but this is why I chose the blue. That would of drove me nuts!!
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I love the white and still want the white. But after this many, I can't be bothered by it any longer. The blue one will be delivered today.
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Yea i think all the white ones will ultimately have it to some degree. The skyrocket also has it and so does the sgh-t989 (white model) the dark colored phones such as black and blue kind of hide this.....i have a white one and mine bleed but im not returning it because of that that is just a little to anal. Now if the screen was bleeding then thats a different story. Il tell u what though id love to make them brighter somehow! My T989 keys were super bright
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I don't find it about being anal though. I can't stand distractions like these. Playing a game or watching a movie and there's the bleed! Knowing that something is wrong with a $700 device drives me crazy.

True we do pay out the ass so they shouldnt come like this.....at all
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I have the white one no bleeds thank god.
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yeislak said:
I have the white one no bleeds thank god.
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All white devises have the bleed, try it in a dark room and you'll see it.

can you post the date and location the white was manufactured to see if it is a fault at the plant

6/14 China
All of them.

LOL.. I have a lot, I kinda liked it.. it looks cool in the dark like phone is ALL lit up.