My phone is three weeks old and i just noticed that on white screens like google search screen there are horizontal lines flickering which disappear when i touch the screen and appear again when i remove my finger. Also they are more visible as the brightness gets lower. Also the first time i used my phone after a few hours of using i was watching a replay in clash of clans and suddenly vertical pink lines appeared and the whole screen was distorted (like a broken lcd monitor) and a restart solved this problem however it hasn't occured since. Last issue am having is when changing brightness it's not smooth ie the increase or decrease is not accurately gradual don't know how to describe it but you may call it flickering. These issues are not affecting anything but am worried that it may worsen overtime and become a problem. Any help or suggestions please.
Note 3 Neo SM-N7505
Seems to be a hardware issue.. you must visit samsung service center and get it diagnosed..
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Hi guys
has anyone else experianced a flickering every now and then when using the media link accessory. It occurs every few seconds and caused the picture to bounce, with a usually green band on the bottom part of the screen. Ive started to use zoom to get rid of the banding on my tv - not ideal and the boucing is still there.
this is occuring on all my videos, using both mobo and gallery.
Ive got samsung plasma 50 inch tv, it also occurs on my 23inch led sammy and my 40inch sammy lcd (older tv). ive fiddled with my networks and cannot get rid of the problem, i think there maybe an issue with the firmware on the device but need other people to say they are also having this issue before i go to htc.
thanks guys
Hi guys,
My Galaxy Nexus has a weird issue that I can't seem to figure out whether it is caused by software or hardware. A portion of my screen seems to flicker when I have certain apps open. They all have a common cause. For instance when I open Chrome and begin to do a search from the top I notice the drop down results will flicker in sync with the cursor. It doesn't appear that the whole screen flickers. It only seems to be the drop down results which are typically black text on white backgroud that flicker. I don't notice anything similar within all other apps such as the standard messaging app which have blinking cursors. I can also get the same flickering result in my IMDB Movie app while starting a search within the app which will start to display results that faintly flicker. I have never seen it flicker using a screen testing app such as the ones used for detecting dead pixels. I am not sure if this is something has always existed on my phone, but I noticed this about a week ago while still on 4.1.2. I am now on 4.2 and still have the issue. I attempted a factory reset just to see if that would clear it up but it didn't. Has anyone else experienced this or have some insight for the flickering? I wanted to see if anyone has noticed this before I start the whole Samsung tech process!
One additional observation I made is that when I don't notice the flickering within Chrome,it will remain without any issue until I go and start clearing recent apps.
Thanks,
Jay
Sounds stupid but you sure its not an auto-brightness issue? Samsung phones are known to have crazy auto brightness but anyway try clearing the cache for each app that seems affected....check back let us know what happens
Thanks for the response. I have turned off auto brightness and tried manual brightness settings with the same result. It hasn't become worse, but I can't explain it either way. I have tried clearing the cache for chrome and other apps, but that also hasn't improved things. I am wondering if I try flashing the phone with a fresh stock image instead of just a factory reset since that automatically re-downloaded my apps. I have never done any modifications (root or unlock) so I am not sure that would really help. Maybe the screen is beginning to go bad, but I figured it would flicker when using a screen test app. It only flickers on the white background for specific app search results (ex. Chrome, IMDB, and Zillow).
Thanks again,
Jay
So I did some more troubleshooting and I started uninstalling apps to see if I could find an app causing the issue if it was software. For some reason if I am running my XDA Forum app and leave it running in the recent apps list then I don't get the flicker within Chrome or other apps that have search with drop down results. It is just the search results that flicker and not the whole screen. As soon as I swipe away the XDA app then the flickering returns. I tried uninstalling the XDA app and the flickering continues. It is fairly subtle. I could try a factory reset again and not allow Google to re-install my apps and see if that resolves the issue, but it is very strange overall. I swung over to a Verizon store that still had one on display (even though mine is a GSM model)and noticed there unit had similar behavior and it could be a coincidence. It is pretty subtle, but I am confused why the XDA app keeps it from doing it.
Jay
Strange problem:
I'm on 4.3 ML3, Note 3 MOD v3.5, and on Devil kernel latest version.
I noticed that when my note 2 is being charged while it's turned OFF, after 5 minutes of being turned off it will automatically turn on again!! ONLY when its charging.
Strange Problem 2:
Sudden restarts.. Not random restarts while its locked or anything, it restarted a couple of times while im just playing with it!
STRANGEST PROBLEM OF ALL:
I was messing around with my note 2, then I was in app drawer.. I tapped on Settings app, and the screen had about 10 horizontal a bit thick Black lines covering the screen, and they grew bigger and bigger until the screen was totally black!! This only happened once, and a restart fixed it.. What would you like to say about this?
The first two problems can be taken as a bad ROM or mod. The third is the graphics driver crashing, most likely.
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As per the title, only just noticed this happening in the last week or so, it doesn't happen all the time, I've witnessed it in the app drawer and it happens in some games like Riptide GP & possibly others, its all the way down the screen in the same place each time it happens and its on a slight angle, is it a fault or more to do with Android?
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Gilly10 said:
As per the title, only just noticed this happening in the last week or so, it doesn't happen all the time, I've witnessed it in the app drawer and it happens in some games like Riptide GP & possibly others, its all the way down the screen in the same place each time it happens and its on a slight angle, is it a fault or more to do with Android?
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hi,
i've noticed it with the keyboard in both my t210r and p5210
different devices yes but both samsung, probably a quality control issue
bye
I've been using this phone for under 4 months and It is an excellent phone. I have never dropped the phone and it has never been water damaged. Last night, before my eyes, the screen suddenly started to flicker but also i noticed white diagonal static on the swiftkey keyboard area like an interfered with TV on a paranormal movie. The screen eventually went black for 10 seconds and came back again. It happened again 10 minutes later and then 10 minutes after that. It is normal and flickers black every 5 seconds and then it flickers static 5 or so seconds later and then it flickers black 5 or so seconds after that.
imgur . com/a/aLrXaCG (remove space around dot)
imgur . com/a/eeAONbn
It is very brief so I paused the video on the frame that contains the artefact as it flashes quickly
I have found this post which looks promising: www . reddit .
com/r/Swiftkey/comments/a1zpai/bug_phone_flickers_on_and_off_while_using/
I'm still not sure if it is 100% a hardware issue or an issue induced by software or the OS.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this exact feature before. On my old phone I was using AZ screen recorder and I put it to a setting it didn't like and the playback contained that same pink and yellow static on the keyboard but also the artefact in the second image. I seem to remember it now. Although it didn't happen during recording or on the actual phone itself, It only appeared on the playback video.
The first time it happened, I didn't capture it but there were also white lines that flickered up that time, they looked like this: imgur . com/mb5AWBC
I updated EMUI and swiftkey and it hasn't happened yet but I've only been using it for 30 minutes.
I'm not being hopeful but it does look like more of an OS issue to me, given the presentation and location of the artefacts, given also that they are on application defined boundaries such as perfectly on the swiftkey keyboard.
If I'm not mistaken it also made a chirping sound very briefly like a digital TV in the rain
Oh and it's an EVR-AL00 and it was on the last version before the current EMUI update
Update 28/04 16:00 GMT: It hasn't recurred since the reboot and update (03:00 GMT 27/04)