Hey all im with tmobile and ive had my phone now for about 2 and a half weeks just looking to put my mind at ease with a few i think issues with the phone..
1)does the auto brightness seem out of touch with the surroundings sometimes? cause mine will brighten a bit then darken a bit.. It doesnt do this on my set settings its quite annoying....
2) does the upper half of the phone get just a little hot after heavy use?? I called tmobile today and they have no problem switching it out for me but if you all are having the same issues then ill just leave it alone.... thanks all in advance to your answers...
Its normal, my phone is the same way.. the s3 too..
Same here
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A little warm is normal. Yes, I have that too.
I also have that auto brightness problem too. I just turned off the auto brightness just of that problem. I don't know if this is a sensor problem or software problem. But I like to manually control my brightness of my devices anyway.
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Hi all.
I'm reading a lot about 'screen flicker'. But it seems people are using this to describe a few different faults.
I've noticed that my one x backlight flickers when in auto brightness mode. But it only does it under artificial light. Under natural light it's totally fine.
If I turn off Auto brightness, it is completely fine also, regardless of what level I set the brightness to.
It's almost as if the software isn't filtering the auto brightness sensor output enough and trying to respond instantaneously to even the slightest light change, giving the impression of a flicker.
Who else has this issue specifically?
It looks to me like a software issue, but I only have 3 days left in my return for refund peiod and I'm not sure what the best option is.
Cheers.
EDIT: On to my 10th handset now with the same issue and just about ready to give up, but have noticed that the flicker seems to be worse when the CPU is coming on and off heavy load.
Can someone with Root and SETCPU installed please try different governers to see if they make any difference to this issue? I don't wan to root this phone to try it myself as I may end up returning it. Thanks!
Sentinel196 said:
Hi all.
I'm reading a lot about 'screen flicker'. But it seems people are using this to describe a few different faults.
I've noticed that my one x backlight flickers when in auto brightness mode. But it only does it under artificial light. Under natural light it's totally fine.
If I turn off Auto brightness, it is completely fine also, regardless of what level I set the brightness to.
It's almost as if the software isn't filtering the auto brightness sensor output enough and trying to respond instantaneously to even the slightest light change, giving the impression of a flicker.
Who else has this issue specifically?
It looks to me like a software issue, but I only have 3 days left in my return for refund peiod and I'm not sure what the best option is.
Cheers.
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Oh well return it, and buy a new one thats probably the best option, i ordered mine yesterday, and ill do the same in 2 weeks if it have issues
Yeah I'm thinking that might be the best option. It's just that it seems to be a Software issue to me.
Anyone upgraded to 1.28 and seen this specific problem (not the screen jumping and flickering pixels) go away?
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Yeah I'm thinking that might be the best option. It's just that it seems to be a Software issue to me.
Anyone upgraded to 1.28 and seen this specific problem (not the screen jumping and flickering pixels) go away?
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I've upgraded to 1.28 and still have the flickering problem. I would love to be able to believe its software and its going to get fixed with an OTA, but at the moment everyone is simply uncertain as to what the future holds.
HTC advices anyone with a flickering screen to go to your carrier and ask for a replacement
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On to my 10th handset with auto-brightness flicker now. At what point should i jsut give up? lol
It seems to be somehow related to CPU load also as I'm noticing the flicker is far worse when the cpu is changing power states.
Can someone with root try a different governer for the CPU and see if that changes the flicker at all?
BUMP. I'd be really great if someone rooted could test this theory!
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I really cant help but ill tell my experience with my onex for the past two or three weeks.
I had the flickering screen twice,
1. random on the notification bar.
2. I was taking photos and got the CPU loaded because I was shooting too many pics. the bottom side of the screen was flickering.
anyway, I notice that the flickering only happend when the auto screen rotate is enabled.
Thanks for the reply, but I think you're talking about a different flicker. I'm talking about the back-light flicker when Auto Brightness is enabled. Not the LCD panel flicker.
Hello all,
I have this very annoying problem from so long now.. and I guess I am not the only one who has it.. Whenever I travel on bike and I take my cell out of my pocket under sunlight to change the song or to call someone, the screen doesnt come up.. it goes blank, even if I am listening to some song, still I dont see anything on the screen... Its really annoying.. Also whenever I receive any call under sunlight, I can't disconnect it.. Why the heck sony doesnt have a stable GB software even though ICS has been rolled out now.. Sometimes I feel Samsung is way better than Sony.. seriously.. I feel that I should have gone for the SGSII rather than Xperia Arc.. And u cant compromise everytime when u r investing more than 25K bucks...
In wat way you mean that the screen goes blank? I couldn't get you,
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I had the same problem. The first one was after a trip on motorcycle, phone in the pocket. Impossible to have something on the screen while i was able to see the backlight turned on. I left it like that all day long and it resuscitated. Then, recently, it made me the same thing while it was in my bag all day. And even by leaving it on a table, later it was not resuscitated, I have reinstalled the rom, twice to resuscitate it.
During the first crash I was able to see the log file, I remember that there were lines in red which indicated " starting of the module LM365x (or an equivalent number) failed " very numerous times.
Good luck to you to resuscitate your phone!
Do you have screen brightness on automatic maybe?
It could be the sensor think it's bright enough not to switch on the backlight?
Hi, what do u mean by having auto brightness on? How to do it?
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Mines on full brightness and its still hard for me
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Hi, what do u mean by having auto brightness on? How to do it?
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Auto brightness is on by default and there's no settings for you to change it.. Try keeping your finger closing the sensor and wake it up!
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Is anyone having issues with the auto brightness on this phone? I can be in a stationary location looking at the screen and it goes from bright to dim and back every 5-10 seconds with no change in the room lighting or input on my part. Just trying to determine if it is a hardware defect before my 14 day window closes for an exchange. Thanks.
Scrooge276 said:
Is anyone having issues with the auto brightness on this phone? I can be in a stationary location looking at the screen and it goes from bright to dim and back every 5-10 seconds with no change in the room lighting or input on my part. Just trying to determine if it is a hardware defect before my 14 day window closes for an exchange. Thanks.
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Both GT-7000 & T889 did the same thing , thats why i disable auto option.
I just found this thread right after I posted the same question regarding auto brightness. Ooops my bad.
I guess I am not the only one having this issue. It is annoying isn't it? I had other phones that didn't do this. Now if our awesome developers can come up with a remedy or cook up a rom that doesn't do this. I'll be the the first one in line.
Glad it is not just me. It is especially worse at night, the screen goes light to dark every few seconds it actually gives me a headache. I am using Lux with adjust on wake right now. Hoping there is a fix because a phone of this magnitude should have a working auto brightness feature.
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I decided to exchange mine yesterday and boy was it a good decision. The new one does NOT do this. If you are still having problems, return it if you can before your remorse Window closes. Good luck.
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I have something weird happening ,when auto-brightness is enabled or the phone screen is dimming down right before it goes to sleep a grey transparent looking screen flickers and sometimes sticks until i touch the screen to wake the phone back up and bring it back to whatever brightness setting i had it on . Im probably gonna do a warranty exchange when i get home i just wonder if this has happened to anyone else
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I have something weird happening ,when auto-brightness is enabled or the phone screen is dimming down right before it goes to sleep a grey transparent looking screen flickers and sometimes sticks until i touch the screen to wake the phone back up and bring it back to whatever brightness setting i had it on . Im probably gonna do a warranty exchange when i get home i just wonder if this has happened to anyone else
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Haven't seen that happen on mine over the two weeks I've had it.
tigerz0202 said:
I have something weird happening ,when auto-brightness is enabled or the phone screen is dimming down right before it goes to sleep a grey transparent looking screen flickers and sometimes sticks until i touch the screen to wake the phone back up and bring it back to whatever brightness setting i had it on . Im probably gonna do a warranty exchange when i get home i just wonder if this has happened to anyone else
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I think I know what you are talking about. It's got to do with "Auto adjust screen tone" in Setting -> Display. For whatever the reason, transition between high brightness level and auto adjust screen tone isn't quite smooth. This happens all 3 of my Note 2 and S3. It's annoying as hell...
Let me know if that fix the flickering issue.
I have the same problem and every so often when useing the s pen the hole phone goes nuts, screen flipping by at a fast rate of speed and it is go from dim to bright to dim really fast too.
I have restart the phone and works for a few days and it comes right back.
Mike was it exposed to moisture? How long did you have the brighter note apk on there also?
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zen0s said:
I think I know what you are talking about. It's got to do with "Auto adjust screen tone" in Setting -> Display. For whatever the reason, transition between high brightness level and auto adjust screen tone isn't quite smooth. This happens all 3 of my Note 2 and S3. It's annoying as hell...
Let me know if that fix the flickering issue.
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I just checked the box in the settings gonna mess with it for a while see if it happens again.
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Hmm ran some tests with that feature enabled and so far so good .Gonna play with it for a couple days thanks for the tip
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Mike was it exposed to moisture? How long did you have the brighter note apk on there also?
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No moisture exposure and its definitely a hardware issue im sure of ,don't think the app has anything to do with it
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No moisture exposure and its definitely a hardware issue im sure of ,don't think the app has anything to do with it
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May be the user of the phone messing with the settings in terminal when he don't know how to like me
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jeremyandroid said:
May be the user of the phone messing with the settings in terminal when he don't know how to like me
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probably not
I had the same issue. Its not a hardware issue or app or anything . You have to odin back stock . I won't go into detail but there is something stuck on your partition from a kernel it sounds to me that can only be removed by going back stock . That's a know issue with the note 2 with kernels. If you flashed a kernel that's why .
Have any other Z5 premium users noticed that sometimes when you wake up the screen it looks super washed out almost LG G3 esque for a second or 2 then it goes back to looking normal?
Just wondering if there's an explanation, it's a common thing or i have a faulty handset.
Thanks
Darkwun said:
Have any other Z5 premium users noticed that sometimes when you wake up the screen it looks super washed out almost LG G3 esque for a second or 2 then it goes back to looking normal?
Just wondering if there's an explanation, it's a common thing or i have a faulty handset.
Thanks
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Don't think it's faulty. Very noticable to me on very dark screens. If you turn off Adaptive Brightness in settings this doesn't happen. It's just trying to adjust the screen to a proper brightness.
I have had the same issue.
Normally if I wake the phone up directly into an app that had a dark background i can easily see this. I find that pressing the recent apps key, selecting another app and then going back into the washed out app helps to remedy the problem if it does not sort itself out.
This happens for me as well. Note this also happened on my z3. Im not all that worried about it. The washed out display is usually sorted within a few seconds. If it bothers you that much, turning off adaptive brightness get rid of the issue as mentioned earlier.
I've taken to using Lux Auto, it resolved the issue.
They talked about it on the Sony forums, there's a bug in the adaptive brightness and Sony said that they are fixing it for the 6.0 update
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Always notice it when I leave my keyboard open and lock screen. When I unlock it later the keyboard looks all washed out then fades back to normal. Never bothered me though on this or previous Sony phones
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Cheers for the answers guess i'll wait for this 6.0 update to drop to see if it fixes it
Darkwun said:
Cheers for the answers guess i'll wait for this 6.0 update to drop to see if it fixes it
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Good Luck
We're on 7.0 and it is still not working. My screen becomes the dimmest in sunlight or bright days, that's exactly when I need it the brightest and it becomes dim - Sonny ? or Funny !
I am tired of this phone.
May 5th.
So when I am tired I am trying the most crazy things....
Installed LUX Auto Brightness - 48 hours and not a single problem.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux
I organized the application a bit, Min brightness 40% , Max - 100% , link your 0 lux ambient to 60% brightness and use other good stuff.
This application controls the Z5 Brightness so that it gives me what need.
Of course my Z5 adaptive brightness is OFF.
I can not explain how this does it, even me being an EE, but still Job is done.
This was very frustrating so you can understand my excitement.