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Full brightness screen flicker

Recently I have been noticing vertical lines/interference when viewing a mostly white screen while on full brightness. Is this a sign my epic needs a visit to the repair shop?
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I have the same issue, it happens a lot when I'm using the browser.

Sounds like screen burn in, a fairly well known issue.

Is that covered by the warranty cause the screen gets super hot as well I can't imagine what its doing to my battery life
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If it was screen burn in you would get those lines all the time.

Mighty442 said:
If it was screen burn in you would get those lines all the time.
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That makes a lot of scene. I also get it at full brightness only. This is weird
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Its the only problem with Super AMOLED screens, and what is fixed in Super AMOLED Plus.
Sent from my Epic 4g thats perfect in stock form.

That's odd I don't remember it ever happening before recently oh well its still bright as hell on low anyways but it will suck outside as that's the only time I up my brightness I wonder if its a power issue with the cpu as it only happens most during processing market or web pages
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This is an engineering flaw. When the voltage from the battery drops, when it is not fully charged, and the screen brightness is at maximum, and the screen has a lot of white pixels drawing power, the display controller loses power, and has trouble with sync.
The battery will also drain slowly, when the brightness is set at max, even when plugged in and supposedly charging. This is even more critical on USB charging.
These problems are hidden most of the time, with the Display/Power saving mode, and dimmer screen settings.
It seems the full brightness is not properly designed and powered, and this is a shame, because it really makes the Epic 4G's display stand out.

Büke Beyond said:
This is an engineering flaw. When the voltage from the battery drops, when it is not fully charged, and the screen brightness is at maximum, and the screen has a lot of white pixels drawing power, the display controller loses power, and has trouble with sync.
The battery will also drain slowly, when the brightness is set at max, even when plugged in and supposedly charging. This is even more critical on USB charging.
These problems are hidden most of the time, with the Display/Power saving mode, and dimmer screen settings.
It seems the full brightness is not properly designed and powered, and this is a shame, because it really makes the Epic 4G's display stand out.
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Lol! I just had this problem crop up on me today for the first time, and I thanked this guy because he described it exactly, low battery and all, but it was his one and only post from a year ago. Well, still, thanks. I hope you read this someday.

amateurhack said:
Lol! I just had this problem crop up on me today for the first time, and I thanked this guy because he described it exactly, low battery and all, but it was his one and only post from a year ago. Well, still, thanks. I hope you read this someday.
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i remember reading this maybe 6 months ago. posted on a few posts from his advice. and fixed my wife's epic. lol

xopher.hunter said:
Recently I have been noticing vertical lines/interference when viewing a mostly white screen while on full brightness. Is this a sign my epic needs a visit to the repair shop?
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Voodoo Color Settings
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XxLostSoulxX said:
Voodoo Color Settings
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Somebody needs to read. This was a year ago. On froyo.
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ÜBER™ said:
Somebody needs to read. This was a year ago. On froyo.
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Ohh sorry why are all these old threads being dugged up? There's no reason for it
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XxLostSoulxX said:
Ohh sorry why are all these old threads being dugged up? There's no reason for it
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Heh, too much to read 10 short posts?
Maybe there was a reason for it. Maybe it saved a new thread being created that didn't need to be created. Maybe there was humor in it. You never know...until you read the thread.
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Heh, too much to read 10 short posts?
Maybe there was a reason for it. Maybe it saved a new thread being created that didn't need to be created. Maybe there was humor in it. You never know...until you read the thread.
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Not to mention his answer was wrong anyways. Lol
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zanderman112 said:
Not to mention his answer was wrong anyways. Lol
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Well, I wouldn't be surprised if lowering the voodoo rgb settings worked. It just wasn't the answer I was looking for.
I like my screen colors the way they are.
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amateurhack said:
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if lowering the voodoo rgb settings worked. It just wasn't the answer I was looking for.
I like my screen colors the way they are.
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Its most definitely a hardware issue. My last epic didn't do it. But this refurb does. Either way, we should stop posting in here I guess lol. Let 'er sink.
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zanderman112 said:
... Either way, we should stop posting in here I guess lol. Let 'er sink.
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Awww, and it was just gettin fun.
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New screen problems

So I just got my phone a few days ago and while browsing the web I noticed my screen sometimes loses color? Like it goes black and while lines like a static from a tv. Not that bad but it is getting worse. Should I return the phone or what? Is this the same problem with lines and blobs everybody else is having?
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take it back
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zander145 said:
So I just got my phone a few days ago and while browsing the web I noticed my screen sometimes loses color? Like it goes black and while lines like a static from a tv. Not that bad but it is getting worse. Should I return the phone or what? Is this the same problem with lines and blobs everybody else is having?
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No its not the same. Take it back. There is something wrong.
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Exodian said:
No its not the same. Take it back. There is something wrong.
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He's right. Take it back. It will only get worse.

Oh. Great. Right after I get a rom I like. Is this atleast known to happen to some people or am I just that unlucky...?
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zander145 said:
Oh. Great. Right after I get a rom I like. Is this atleast known to happen to some people or am I just that unlucky...?
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Your the first person I have heard have this issue. Best thing to due is return it back to stock if you have modded it and get it replaced. Something is wrong with your phone and should definitely be replaced.
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are you sure maybe it's not the AutoBrightness acting up?
try with auto brightness disabled

Would that cause it? I usually have my brightness on high though, which it was at the time.
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this is definitely a new and unique, almist certainly, hardware fault. Reset factory settings and return.

Sounds like he's mistakenly referring to the known "checkerboarding" issue in the stock browser as black & whites lines from a TV...
Just my two cents..

zander145 said:
Would that cause it? I usually have my brightness on high though, which it was at the time.
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No, that would not cause it. The symptom of that issue is fluctuating brightness not color dropping out. The problem could be a bad video connector or cable in the phone, or a bad display panel. Take it back while you can.

ingenious247 said:
Sounds like he's mistakenly referring to the known "checkerboarding" issue in the stock browser as black & whites lines from a TV...
Just my two cents..
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I don't use the default web browser.
I have noticed it the most on the game hanging with friends.

zander145 said:
I don't use the default web browser.
I have noticed it the most on the game hanging with friends.
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Make sure that it is your phone and not the app or game you're playing that is faulty.
There is enough hate in the world. Why can't we all get along here ...?

any supercurio news folks?

just like the tittle says, any updates?

Nope.
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Glad i didnt donate . Somethin like this might've happened
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mickeycobra04 said:
Glad i didnt donate . Somethin like this might've happened
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he did look into it.

jim93 said:
he did look into it.
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its been like over 3 months lol =/ soo sad, especially since it was supercurio, i trusted the guy =/

It has nothing to do with trust. He clearly stated his agenda and never gave a timeframe. He even stated a few times he was working on the note abd other phones first since they were easier fixes than our "black sheep" of a phone. He is well know and i wouldnt think that hed take a phone just to take it and not evetually work on it.
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its been like over 3 months lol =/ soo sad, especially since it was supercurio, i trusted the guy =/
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It has nothing to do with trust. He clearly stated his agenda and never gave a timeframe. He even stated a few times he was working on the note abd other phones first since they were easier fixes than our "black sheep" of a phone. He is well know and i wouldnt think that hed take a phone just to take it and not evetually work on it.
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yea hell work on it eventually

jim93 said:
yea hell work on it eventually
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eventually lol that could be 6 months from now, i wont own this device by then lol

HRodMusic said:
eventually lol that could be 6 months from now, i wont own this device by then lol
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Who cares ? You made a weeping farewell speech from the T989 months ago, what happened ? Be gone already...........

HRodMusic said:
eventually lol that could be 6 months from now, i wont own this device by then lol
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The blobs that everyone donated for was clearly a possible hardware issue which means that nobody would be able to fix it without mods made by hand. At best all he could do was look into it. Its not his fault people paid for a new phone just to look into it.
The whole situation is analogous to if Samsung released a new phone where a quarter of them had bad search buttons. It could be a software issue but likely a hardware problem with QA. Instead of exchanging the phone people then proceeded to setup a bounty to buy a new phone to get this fixed. Its looked into and it turns out its just a bad solder connecting the search button. This would of been likely in the first place and people should of just exchanged their phone rather than setting up a bounty for something which has a fair likelihood of being a hardware issue.
You have a hardware issue then exchange your phone.
If the blobs bother you exchange your phone. If the blobs only bother you when you have to follow a page of instructions on how to see it, really. If you need to follow a multi step guide to see it then its not that big of a deal. If it is then exchange your phone.

Just curious...
Anyone play the game Osmos....that will really show off your lines and blobs if you play it in a low light enviornment or at night.
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G1ForFun said:
Just curious...
Anyone play the game Osmos....that will really show off your lines and blobs if you play it in a low light enviornment or at night.
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I play it I notice it with auto brightness on mines so it doesn't bother me. Since my lines are not visible with auto brightness off. It doesn't bother me. Auto brightness is buggy on this phone. Anyway doesn't seem to accurate.
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Killbynature said:
I play it I notice it with auto brightness on mines so it doesn't bother me. Since my lines are not visible with auto brightness off. It doesn't bother me. Auto brightness is buggy on this phone. Anyway doesn't seem to accurate.
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Yeaaa I turned brightness all the way up and it is much better of course but it is just unfortunate that this bandaid is the end all solution. The battery when playing a game and having the brightness all the way up gets effed.

G1ForFun said:
Yeaaa I turned brightness all the way up and it is much better of course but it is just unfortunate that this bandaid is the end all solution. The battery when playing a game and having the brightness all the way up gets effed.
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I don't have to do that when auto brightness is on for me I have lines. When it's off at the lowest brightness no lines. If I can't see in the sun I just slide my fingers across the status bar to adjust.
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Hmmm is it safe to say that the supercurio project for the t989 is dead???

Should I return it?

Just got my note 2 & noticed a small discoloration in the volume button as shown in the picture.
Everything is working perfectly
Is it worth the return?
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Imo I wouldnt. Something like that wouldnt bother me at all. But thats just me
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suspect32 said:
Imo I wouldnt. Something like that wouldnt bother me at all. But thats just me
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+1

If it doesn't really require lots of hassle, i would ask for a swap.

If I bought it at a store, I would return it.

It will definitely go back first thing in the morning as I just found that the theft side of the screen is waaaay to unresponsive to the spen.
Thank you guys.

Dr.Mcq said:
It will definitely go back first thing in the morning as I just found that the theft side of the screen is waaaay to unresponsive to the spen.
Thank you guys.
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Guess what. ..theyre all not ve r y sensitive on the side of the screen with spen. Mines like they and multiple people have Reported this.
Search for spen sensitivity and you'll see what I mean
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ssCISengineer said:
Guess what. ..theyre all not ve r y sensitive on the side of the screen with spen. Mines like they and multiple people have Reported this.
Search for spen sensitivity and you'll see what I mean
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I know what you mean. My issue is different... attached is a picture showing the problem. I've tried 4 spens & 3 out of 4 showed the same problem

Oh now I understand..... Yes that's unacceptable
Return immediately
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I would return it ...
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mrufokid said:
I would return it ...
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already on its way back

Holy crapola that sucks! I was gonna say (before I read all the way down) that I'm so anal with my stuff that I'd return it in a heartbeat. Now that I see the sensitivity issue I'd obviously return it like you did. Hopefully that doesn't ruin your opinion of the Note 2 though, because it's a truly awesome phone! I've had mine for a few weeks now and I don't know what I'd do without it anymore!
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Well, I'm a huge fan of the note concept & I know that Samsung's quality control is very very good but sometimes you get a lemon & you have to deal with it.

I guess I'm just fortunate I never have these issues....how did you purchase in store. ...yet its later outside the store you notice something you SHOULD have noticed at time of purchase.............doesn't everyone inspect their device prior to paying and leaving. As far as the s-pen issues people should adjust their settings mines works just fine you have to tweak the sensitivity to your own UNIQUE handwriting style
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bipoler said:
yet its later outside the store you notice something you SHOULD have noticed at time of purchase.............doesn't everyone inspect their device prior to paying and leaving.
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bipoler: Sometimes new gadget owners fall victim to the so-called Gollum syndrome: their eyes enlarge, their skintone dulls and greys out, and their cognitive functions are diminished. It can last from a few minutes to a few days, and only the worse failures can stop the symptoms quickly, more subtle defects take longer.

bipoler said:
I guess I'm just fortunate I never have these issues....how did you purchase in store. ...yet its later outside the store you notice something you SHOULD have noticed at time of purchase.............doesn't everyone inspect their device prior to paying and leaving. As far as the s-pen issues people should adjust their settings mines works just fine
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Well I got my unit online from timo's website. Once I got the device 18 hours later it was on its way back. The spen issue is not just a less sensitive area... its a deadzone which the device just does not register anything.
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**Ultimate GS3 sudden death thread** (Tmo version)

Hi guys, recently lots of S3 owners encouter this scary issue that their S3's motherboards just failed randomly and the phones are dead.Here is the link to the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993044
However, after reading pages, I noticed most cases are in the UK, some in other europe countries, some in asia (india, south east asia). Not sure the US version (and Tmo version specificly) is suffering from this, so I made this thread to gather information about this. I know I am paranoid, but I was hoping my S3 would last at least 2 years til my next upgrade. And now Im living in fear after knowing that thread. My S3 (manufacture date is 06/27/12) is still performing very fine with zero issue since august except the SD card being removed unexpectedly 2 times by the phone itself.
(btw, you can check your manufature date by dial this code: *#12580*369# )
Edit: seems like only international version suffers from this issue.

This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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elracing21 said:
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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Thank you. you all need to get it.

elracing21 said:
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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Well warranty doesn't matter when your phone is rooted right?

crazexr7 said:
Well warranty doesn't matter when your phone is rooted right?
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Well that's what Odin is for. If you Odin to stock it doesn't take away your warranty.
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elracing21 said:
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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my phone comes with 1 year warranty. But I hate having a phone already opened up for repair.
Anyway, there is 1 case with Tmo US version....

elracing21 said:
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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Warranty or not. Motherboards shouldn't fail on its own.its a recall. manufacturer should be held responsible without warranty.
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diazf09 said:
Warranty or not. Motherboards shouldn't fail on its own.its a recall. manufacturer should be held responsible without warranty.
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Exactly. These phones are too damn expensive for them to keep sticking us consumers on the crap end of the stick when they screw up.
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as much as i hate to say this but if this does happen to mine, this will be the last time I buy from Samsung and might jump ship to Apple where I can take a phone in a get it fixed in time.

Im pretty happy with Samsung, I deal with warranty on a day to day basis in another way but there is an expected amount of devices that go out that a company knows is going to fail at some point and also rely on returns for warranted devices to see what went wrong in production in order to correct it.
The problem is you have "X" amount of people on the forum which is big in consideration to a regular site and "Y" with the same problem and people group in and make the issue bigger than it is. Any company that posts a recall is at the point that OVER 42% of the product with the same failure over the release.
With that said I haven't had one problem with mine that others have reported and after being let down by HTC time and time again I most definitely will buy another Samsung device, so far it's been the best I've had out of the collection of smartphones I have.
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I'm a Samsung convert
No one else has the cyanogen and miui teams working for them
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Well warranty doesn't matter when your phone is rooted right?
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Well that's what Odin is for. If you Odin to stock it doesn't take away your warranty.
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it doesnt matter if youre rooted for hardware failure, they still have to warranty it

Its reasons like these I'm always so fearful to remove my warranty subscription. Oh, and because of all my phone hax0ring

Have the same prolem my phones sometimes turns off by self I have warranty but still hateto go back to store
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ferlogan said:
Have the same prolem my phones sometimes turns off by self I have warranty but still hateto go back to store
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You dont have to go to the store, call T-Mobile and they will send you one with an RMA, as soon as you get it put the old one in the box and send it out. All they do is check for water damage and put it up for refurbish they don't waste time putting it through testing they test the devices that may have account info on it if you can't power it up to format it before sending it back. They ask you that on the phone.
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So does this mean that none of the tmo peeps have had no issues with their devices dying? I only ask because, I just got my galaxy last Wednesday. Had a couple quirks, but nothing's dead yet. Had a little issue with my music and swipe. When I would get my notifications tones say from email I would be listening to music, the sound would nearly drown out and stay that way till I paused my music and started again all was fine. I've been getting random screen flashes near the bottom of the screen, like a ton of lines like a glitch. Anyone else having this issue as well? Feel free to add anything else if you like.
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jay4mont78 said:
So does this mean that none of the tmo peeps have had no issues with their devices dying? I only ask because, I just got my galaxy last Wednesday. Had a couple quirks, but nothing's dead yet. Had a little issue with my music and swipe. When I would get my notifications tones say from email I would be listening to music, the sound would nearly drown out and stay that way till I paused my music and started again all was fine. I've been getting random screen flashes near the bottom of the screen, like a ton of lines like a glitch. Anyone else having this issue as well? Feel free to add anything else if you like.
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Sounds to me like you might have activated something in developers options, go in settings and see if you selected anything that would flash the screen if long processes are in use.
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Nothing in dev out of the usual, only thing being ticked is the usb debugging, and turned up the animation scales, transitions etc to .05, animations were at 1, but I was using swype, only happens when using that. Any better keyboards I can download on the market better than the Samsung or swype?
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Nothing in dev out of the usual, only thing being ticked is the usb debugging, and turned up the animation scales, transitions etc to .05, animations were at 1, but I was using swype, only happens when using that. Any better keyboards I can download on the market better than the Samsung or swype?
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Nvm found the gingerbread keyboard on the market, thanks for the tip.
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jay4mont78 said:
Nothing in dev out of the usual, only thing being ticked is the usb debugging, and turned up the animation scales, transitions etc to .05, animations were at 1, but I was using swype, only happens when using that. Any better keyboards I can download on the market better than the Samsung or swype?
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Nvm found the gingerbread keyboard on the market, thanks for the tip.
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Did you enable any traces? That would show depending on what you have checked. I was gonna try enabling a few to see what it does but it's not like it would ruin anything. I'll report back though to see if I can recreate it.
Edit nope that did nothing, hope you figure it out, I never had that happen before.
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havent heard anyone yet seem the us version are better than other version in the world