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I have noticed that my screen is flickering ever so slightly in all applications. it is bearable but slightly annoying. Could this be hardware related and will I have grounds for a warrenty replacement? should I wait and see if any OTAs resolve it?
Everything is stock. Brightness is set to auto.
I have problems with shadowgun crashing when there is an explosion etc. possibly related?
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Yeah, i noticed this too on my One X I've mostly seen it while my mobile data connection was on, and it seems to decrease a lot but not completely disappear when it's off. I also got a weird message yesterday while charging, saying something along the lines of "your phone is using too much current, -" (the message was in dutch, not sure what the exact message is in english) my phone turned off before I could completely read it. I wonder if those issues are somehow related. Maybe the screens backlight isn't getting enough power when the radio is on. Anyways, I'm not an expert, so don't quote me on that.
I also heard the tegra 3 drivers are buggy, so shadowgun crashing and performance drops etc. will hopefully be resolved in future updates.
I've got it as well I think it's a driver issue the last thing I want to do is go for a replacement and that to have more dud stuff as this is the only dud thing on mine. Everything else is fine apart from flickers now and then.
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JimmyEatFood said:
I have noticed that my screen is flickering ever so slightly in all applications. it is bearable but slightly annoying. Could this be hardware related and will I have grounds for a warrenty replacement? should I wait and see if any OTAs resolve it?
Everything is stock. Brightness is set to auto.
I have problems with shadowgun crashing when there is an explosion etc. possibly related?
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hey jimmy go to Menu->settings-> Developer options and untick all the option restart your phone and magic..... screen flickering will disappear
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backstabz0r said:
Yeah, i noticed this too on my One X I've mostly seen it while my mobile data connection was on, and it seems to decrease a lot but not completely disappear when it's off. I also got a weird message yesterday while charging, saying something along the lines of "your phone is using too much current, -" (the message was in dutch, not sure what the exact message is in english) my phone turned off before I could completely read it. I wonder if those issues are somehow related. Maybe the screens backlight isn't getting enough power when the radio is on. Anyways, I'm not an expert, so don't quote me on that.
I also heard the tegra 3 drivers are buggy, so shadowgun crashing and performance drops etc. will hopefully be resolved in future updates.
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@backstabz0r for screen flickering pls refer to my earlier ans and for your problem which you got warning message thats common warning you get when you have put phone in charge and if you using it for gaming which consumpts more nergy then, message will be" battery consumption is more then the supply"
so suggest ou to let battery get charged till 30 % and then use it for gaming or any other apps
I've read a few threads here regarding the flicker and it seems some people are confusing flicker with something that I really don't know what to call.
Flicker for me is when there's a stroboscope-ish effect, like when you place your sight just above an old CRT monitor, or when a fluorescent light is on it's last breath. Not when what you see on the screen makes random movements a few pixels in any direction.
I have flicker on my HOX. But it's only noticeable on lower brightness levels. This happens in all applications and in settings menu, everything with white or light grey background, so not related to badly written apps. But I wonder if this really CAN be software related? Has this happened with other models from various manufacturers?
mertzi said:
I've read a few threads here regarding the flicker and it seems some people are confusing flicker with something that I really don't know what to call.
Flicker for me is when there's a stroboscope-ish effect, like when you place your sight just above an old CRT monitor, or when a fluorescent light is on it's last breath. Not when what you see on the screen makes random movements a few pixels in any direction.
I have flicker on my HOX. But it's only noticeable on lower brightness levels. This happens in all applications and in settings menu, everything with white or light grey background, so not related to badly written apps. But I wonder if this really CAN be software related? Has this happened with other models from various manufacturers?
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I've got what your describing quite a few users have. I believe it could be down to the drivers for the Soc. Might just need a driver update. Only the next update we can tell if this fixes the issue or not. We need to pressure HTC regarding this issue.
nikzDHD said:
I've got what your describing quite a few users have. I believe it could be down to the drivers for the Soc. Might just need a driver update. Only the next update we can tell if this fixes the issue or not. We need to pressure HTC regarding this issue.
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But is it really possible that a driver issue can cause flicker? I've never seen it before.
I tweeted @htcdev earlier today about it but no response yet. I wonder what the best way to make htc aware of this is. Contacting their lousy customer support feels pointless, it won't reach the people who actually can make an impact.
mertzi said:
I've read a few threads here regarding the flicker and it seems some people are confusing flicker with something that I really don't know what to call.
Flicker for me is when there's a stroboscope-ish effect, like when you place your sight just above an old CRT monitor, or when a fluorescent light is on it's last breath. Not when what you see on the screen makes random movements a few pixels in any direction.
I have flicker on my HOX. But it's only noticeable on lower brightness levels. This happens in all applications and in settings menu, everything with white or light grey background, so not related to badly written apps. But I wonder if this really CAN be software related? Has this happened with other models from various manufacturers?
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This is what I have, but its far worse on higher brightness levels.
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Right guys untick animations in Developer options, restart give it a while, go into camera you'll notice glitches, play a YouTube video you'll notice green bar on the left hand side of the screen in full screen mode. Untick animations and this disappears. It's worrying not sure what to do now.
Edit: can't repeat this but will keep trying as something did trigger it off for the screen to go like that.
Yeah, with flicker I didn't mean anything like having low fps when scrolling through stuff. I meant a quite noticable fluctuation in the brightness of the backlight if that makes sense. It is indeed quite like a CRT monitor with a low refresh rate. I haven't seen it yet when my screen brightness was high, but I'm not sure if it doesn't occur on higher brightness settings. It is also not constantly flickering, It only seems to act up when my mobile data connection is active, although I have seen a very slight flickering with data turned off. I really hope this isn't a hardware issue, the rest of my phone is pretty much perfect and I'd rather not send it in for a replacement after all the trouble I had with my sensation :/
I have the flicker issue, the screen flickers near the center a little bit to the right though, and it is reall irratating, but i can only see it when viewing pictures and on greys.
I hope it isn't hardware!!
tried all the ideas given to stop it but none work for me, still seems to flicker
Me too
I have the screen flickering too.
Im reluctant to return it as apart from this the handset is solid.
It on appears on certain colours making me think its software related.
I also have the exact same flicking issue. From what I have heard it is a software issue rather than a hardware issue. Just to be on the safeside though I am returning my One X to Phones4U for a replacement. Will be interesting to see if the replacement has the same issue.
I made a thorough check yesterday. I downloaded a brightness control app where you can write what brightness level you want so i tried from 3% which was the lowest possible step by step up to 15%. At 15 the flicker stops so its not 30 as I said before. this is my only issue too so I dont dare to replace it just to get a worse phone. My sister is getting one next week so gonna compare them.
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I noticed this too, but i believe its a software issue only. When I unlock the phone, the screen flickers while sense runs and the three menu button appears then goes. Once its all settled its fine. I believe this is to do with sense rather than a phone issue, and will be addressed via OTA.
nickp123 said:
I noticed this too, but i believe its a software issue only. When I unlock the phone, the screen flickers while sense runs and the three menu button appears then goes. Once its all settled its fine. I believe this is to do with sense rather than a phone issue, and will be addressed via OTA.
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Not so sure about it being a specific Sense issue as I have noticed the screen flicking in 3rd party apps such as Spotify.
has anyone had theirs replaced yet? this is doing my head in! really noticeable on a grey background
johnbhoy89 said:
has anyone had theirs replaced yet? this is doing my head in! really noticeable on a grey background
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Phones4U are sending me out a bag to send it back so hopefully should have a replacement by Monday or Tuesday.
dr9722 said:
Phones4U are sending me out a bag to send it back so hopefully should have a replacement by Monday or Tuesday.
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I phoned dialaphone there, i made them aware of the problem with my phone, told them if it wasnt fixed with the update then I would like to replace my phone, told me I had until next tuesday to see if its fixed, until I reminded her about distance selling regulations which gives me 28 days from receiving the handset.
johnbhoy89 said:
I phoned dialaphone there, i made them aware of the problem with my phone, told them if it wasnt fixed with the update then I would like to replace my phone, told me I had until next tuesday to see if its fixed, until I reminded her about distance selling regulations which gives me 28 days from receiving the handset.
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You do indeed have 28 days to return your phone however I wouldn't count on HTC releasing an update before then
Hi all, I am on my second device but had up until now never experienced screen flicker at all.
I open up power settings, click on the graph at the top and I can see a the graph kind of lightly pulsating/flickering. I've tried it on fixed brightness levels and automatic and seems to do it on both.
Anyone else able to test it and see if they see it too ?
mgdew said:
Hi all, I am on my second device but had up until now never experienced screen flicker at all.
I open up power settings, click on the graph at the top and I can see a the graph kind of lightly pulsating/flickering. I've tried it on fixed brightness levels and automatic and seems to do it on both.
Anyone else able to test it and see if they see it too ?
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Not having a go but why have you opened a new thread for this when there are loads already?
mgdew said:
Hi all, I am on my second device but had up until now never experienced screen flicker at all.
I open up power settings, click on the graph at the top and I can see a the graph kind of lightly pulsating/flickering. I've tried it on fixed brightness levels and automatic and seems to do it on both.
Anyone else able to test it and see if they see it too ?
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Tried it on low to high and auto.Not a single flicker.
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cjm1979 said:
Not having a go but why have you opened a new thread for this when there are loads already?
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because I am not convinced what I am seeing is what others are describing in the other threads as screen flicker, hence why I described it.
If its not appropriate then feel free to get someone to delete the thread.
No flicker here, HT245
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I'm on an HT23 device, bizarre, I've asked a couple of colleagues here at work to check it and make sure its not my eyes playing tricks on me.
Nothing on my HT23.
Before this gets closed.......I'm convinced not everyone can see the flicker and those who can may well experience it to different extents.
Sadly, I can see the flicker of DLP projectors all also know as "the rainbow effect" whereas many others cannot.....
flicker may not be the correct term, its like a really minimal strobe effect, its like the voltage to the brightness is being constantly altered by a couple of percent rapidly.
It's visible on my phone by myself and some colleagues using 50% brightness fixed and auto
and as I said in post 3, if people think this should be in another thread, or I have violated any rules and annoyed people please feel free to get a moderator etc to delete the thread.
mgdew said:
flicker may not be the correct term, its like a really minimal strobe effect, its like the voltage to the brightness is being constantly altered by a couple of percent rapidly.
It's visible on my phone by myself and some colleagues using 50% brightness fixed and auto
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I have provided test cases for how to reproduce this kind of flicker before. Today I reviewed another two HOXes of colleagues and so far I have not found a single HOX that I cannot make flicker. I know some are defiantly stating their phone doesn't do it. Maybe there is one out there. But I am now up to 8 phones that I have made flicker and I have yet to be shown one I cannot get to do it!
However, all of them require the battery level to be below 50% to make it reliably happen.
And yes, my wife insists she cannot see the flicker...so not everyone may realise/see it anyway.
There are 2 huge threads about the same thing btw, screen flickering...
I have the exact same thing also. It's not only in the battery menu but sometimes when i'm viewing pics, on screen with grey color is dominant it is visible more but i am used to living with that already since it's a known bug and software related, it is going to be fixed for sure in the upcoming updates. And yes, my wife and some of my friends can also see it happening, the strobe effect, trembling kind of thingy that is hard to explain.
jonstatt said:
I have provided test cases for how to reproduce this kind of flicker before. Today I reviewed another two HOXes of colleagues and so far I have not found a single HOX that I cannot make flicker. I know some are defiantly stating their phone doesn't do it. Maybe there is one out there. But I am now up to 8 phones that I have made flicker and I have yet to be shown one I cannot get to do it!
However, all of them require the battery level to be below 50% to make it reliably happen.
And yes, my wife insists she cannot see the flicker...so not everyone may realise/see it anyway.
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just fyi, i went through 4 phones, all flickered, then 5th and 6th didn't flicker at all. so there are some out there that genuinely don't flicker.
I see it too. As if the refresh rate isn't correctly set.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1617009
Keep it in there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1597448
Or here.
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There are two components to what people are referring to as "flickering."
1) Nvidia PRISM controls (or tries to) the backlight to save energy.
NVIDIA PRISM Display Technology - PRISM (or Pixel Rendering Intensity and Saturation Management) reduces a mobile device’s backlight power while simultaneously enhancing the pixel color to deliver the same visual quality with substantially extended battery life.
It's more noticeable than it should be and is an issue on the Asus Prime also. We may have to live with it in some form.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1542367
2) Graphics issues including "flickering," task bar corruption, funky appearance of the camera app and others are related to the Teg3 graphics drivers which are supplied by Nvidia. HTC acknowledged in the thread this should have been posted in that they identified the problem on May 2 and an update (not 1.29) was forthcoming. The Prime experienced this too and it took multiple updates to resolve. Let's hope Nvidia/HTC gets it right in one shot.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1617009
Keep it in there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1597448
Or here.
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Thanks for the reply. Like I have said twice happy for someone to delete or lock this thread if it's not appropriate.
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Just received my second One X from amazon UK (first was sent back due to charging issues).
Been getting some weird things with the screen on this one, which I haven't heard of in the other threads. I have a fair amount of pixels on the screen that will flicker white on certain screens, particularly on the pull-down notification. The pixels seem to be roughly distributed along two vertical lines on the screen, and there's about 20-30, although it's hard to tell since they never flicker all at once. The white pixels don't show up in screenshots, so I don't think it's a software issue, although it's possible, I suppose.
They never show up on solid colors as far as i can make out, but i get them on the camera preview and in the notification drawer (seems to be that shade of grey combined with the fine texture that sets it off). Very occasionally I get it on the bubbles live wallpaper. I also get it when viewing screenshots of the notification pulldown, so it seems to be the colour/texture, not the actual window being drawn.
I can't tell if this is a software or hardware issue.. I've done a few reboots and a factory reset, which did absolutely nothing. It's always the same pixels, which suggests hardware to me, but then it's oddly specific circumstances that set it off.
Any ideas/anyone else getting similar issues?
Edit: re-reading your post it may not be what I thought. Info below for the "usual" screen flicker issue.
It's a well known issue that pretty much everyone has. The backlight flickers slightly due to a voltage drain when the CPU is busy, causing whites and greys to turn a slightly warmer "colour" for a moment.
It's fixed in the 1.29.11 (not 1.29.7) update which just rolled out in Europe and should follow in the UK in about 2 weeks. It takes up to 2 more weeks after the update for it to monitor the voltage of your individual screen and learn to compensate so the flicker goes away.
Yeah, it's not the backlight, it's literally single pixels flickering from their correct colour to white.
So I've been through the standard factory reset crap with customer service, and they're recommending I sent it in for repair. Has anyone had any luck with the repair centre (I'm in the UK)?
Not sure if it's even worth sending it back since I'm still not sure if it's a hardware or software issue. If it's a software issue, will they fix it, or will they just turn it back and go "nope, couldn't find anything"?
I have EXACTLY the same issue, but with two pixels only, I'm almost convinced it's a hardware fault because I'm on a custom rom and it's still there, I got mine without a warranty though so I'll have to deal with it, any suggestions other than acceptance?
I have same issue, i change the rom and now its fine. it was almost on 3 or 4 roms, and finally its disappear
kami2k said:
I have same issue, i change the rom and now its fine. it was almost on 3 or 4 roms, and finally its disappear
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Well thank you that's rather comforting to know, fingers crossed
I guess flickering is the best way to describe it. On certain gradients and colors, the screen will flicker and have some distortion. Is this normal with the phone or is there an issue with the screen?
Turn down the screen brightness a bit
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jeffreyjicha said:
Turn down the screen brightness a bit
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caQ9nib5RhA
Even at low brightness it still kinda looks like this. I feel like there's something messed up with the screen...
Are you using a kernel with voodoo color support? If you are, that could be the culprit. I'd install the Voodoo color/sound app and try changing a few of the settings to see if that changes anything
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TeeRom said:
I guess flickering is the best way to describe it. On certain gradients and colors, the screen will flicker and have some distortion. Is this normal with the phone or is there an issue with the screen?
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I may have a similar issue on my Epic, though much worse... Check and see if you get the same effects in download mode or nandroid whatever...
My screen started with a blueish flicker and then got worse and worse over the past month, now the whole screen is covered by a translucent blue, I can barely make out whats going on behind it. Though the phone still functions, the display is trashed. Perhaps a loose connection or broken flex cable.
TeeRom said:
I guess flickering is the best way to describe it. On certain gradients and colors, the screen will flicker and have some distortion. Is this normal with the phone or is there an issue with the screen?
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Have you checked your battery? My mom has this phone and had the same problem... I took her battery out and spun it on a table and you could see how warped and swollen it was. These batteries can warp and explode, causing damage to the phone and bodily harm. If your battery is misshapen, take it into Sprint- they will have to swap it out! I got my mom a new battery from them, and her screen is fine now- no flicker. Because it was intermittent (occurring seemingly at random), I was able to rule out being a screen problem. Her screen is fine, it was the battery.
I'm not saying the battery is definitely your problem here, but it is a known problem with the design of the battery/phone, and can cause a lot of damage if your battery IS bad and it is not replaced. Check your battery, it very well may resolve this issue you're having with screen flicker. Otherwise, I don't know
Thanks, I was wondering why my screen had random blotches of yellow flickering, so I swapped my battery, and voilà it's gone. All I need to do now is replace both of them.
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Hey guys, I'm thinking this is simply a common drawback from having an amoled screen, but I just wanted to be sure. While using auto brightness in a dark room (e.g., during bedtime) the brightness level on my device is properly turned down, but I've noticed that when looking at applications that use a black background there will be a lagging "purple smudge" when scrolling or sliding through an application. I first noticed this while using the Yahoo Fantasy Football app in bed. Again, I read that this may be a common problem with phones that have amoled screens but I just wanted to make sure I'm not the only one with some sort of defect. Are you guys experiencing this?
I have used several amoled screen phones and have never had an issue like that. I now have a note 4 as well and I'm not experiencing anything like that. I tried to recreate your condition as best I could and I'm not seeing it..... good luck with that one!
yeah, it always happens on amoled. s4, s5, and the galaxy tab s has it. it's just how it's always been
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Nothing to be worried about. All I have had have done this and the note 4 is no different. Just remember, it's the BEST display available on a phone right now... or so I have read
mine is so terrible, its making me crazy! specially when watching a movie, its all purple, it started the day after i bought it and now got terrible ! my movies get all purple :|(not that much but really annoying)
I'm having the same problem on my note 4 (SM-N910C) after the lollipop update... It's making me very angry! At least on my device the effects seem to be rather substantial... I'm sure this wasn't happening on kitkat...
Anyone else having this problem?
So I tried to reproduce this and under no circumstances does my phone exhibit this under auto brightness.
Though no matter how dark it is my phone will only drop brightness to about ~15-20%.
Even if I drop the brightness down to 2-5% manually it does not exhibit the purple lag.
For my device... only at the absolute minimum brightness does it exhibit this behavior.
If your device is exhibiting this kind of behavior what brightness level is it actually at?