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[Q] Help me with my Evo,Please!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello,
The purpose of this thread is to seek assistance with what has become a major issue.I have a rooted EVO 4g device(for several months) and I am not sure as to how it exactly happened but my phone now complete commands by itself.For example when in typing screen,it automatically starts writing letters,when I try to erase them they repeatedly come back.It will not let me complete many commands before taking over and clicking random selections.
**Things I have tried to remedy the problem include clear cache,data several times,install other roms(same problems with Cynagogen 7, syngergy and MIUI).
Powering off and powering back on.
Nothing seems to work and I would greatly appreciate it, as i am extremely close to unrooting and going back to the old fashion way.
What should I do?
Please help
Albert

Are you using the stock keyboard? or is this on a 3rd party keyboard?

Sounds like the touch screen is going bad to me. Does it also randomly open aps? Or is it just when you are typing?

wow! Incredible response time. I have tried several keyboards as well, stock, swift keyboard and the one that comes preloaded with cynagogen 7.

Are you having issues with response times any other times you touch the screen? Could be your digitizer going bad?

soloque1999 said:
wow! Incredible response time. I have tried several keyboards as well, stock, swift keyboard and the one that comes preloaded with cynagogen 7.
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It's been a slow day at work.
Sounds like you've covered your bases pretty well. I'm still thinking it's a HW problem. There are intructions out there on how to replace the screens. You can buy replacements on eBay.

bizdady said:
Are you having issues with response times any other times you touch the screen? Could be your digitizer going bad?
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issues with response time, such as not responding, clicking above and below the area I touch and not responding to the area I touched.

majorkillin said:
It's been a slow day at work.
Sounds like you've covered your bases pretty well. I'm still thinking it's a HW problem. There are intructions out there on how to replace the screens. You can buy replacements on eBay.
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Curious, do you know how much a screen cost? Nothing else that can be done prior to this? excuse my ignorance.

I've seen anywhere between $11 and $28.

Call a priest, rabbi monk or other clergyman because your phone is possessed by a demon!
Actually, it sounds like a hardware problem. My wife's touchscreen android phone had a similar problem..it was hardware related

soloque1999 said:
Curious, do you know how much a screen cost? Nothing else that can be done prior to this? excuse my ignorance.
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Its a a touch screen lcd Digitizer, pretty much the cover. Some ppl have replaced em when their screen cracks or scratches. You might want to unroot and take into store and see if they will replace.
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Theyre about 20 bucks on ebay.

SantinoInc said:
Call a priest, rabbi monk or other clergyman because your phone is possessed by a demon!
Actually, it sounds like a hardware problem. My wife's touchscreen android phone had a similar problem..it was hardware related
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quite commical, thanks for the humor during such turbulant times. How did you resolve the issue with your wife device?

bizdady said:
Its a a touch screen lcd Digitizer, pretty much the cover. Some ppl have replaced em when their screen cracks or scratches. You might want to unroot and take into store and see if they will replace.
Theyre about 20 bucks on ebay.
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Thanks, a milliion times for your feedback. I actually looked it up after asking impulsively. I was thinking about taking it to sprint, but because I had such a difficult time getting my evo rooted in the first place. wanted to rule out all other options before going that route.

Does anyone have an updated version of the unroot process?
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soloque1999 said:
Does anyone have an updated version of the unroot process?
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Go to unrevoked's site and download the s-on tool, then flash that in recovery. Then download the newest RUU available. You can download it in .exe form to run from your computer or as a zip to flash through the bootloader. If you decide to go the zip route, rename it to PC36IMG.zip (don't add a zip, it's already there) and put it on the root of your SD card. Boot into the bootloader (vol down + power) and when it asks you to update select yes with the volume up button.
I wouldn't flash the s-on tool though, and would just run an RUU. If you used unrevoked or unrevoked forever during your root process then you'll keep s-off. They should still fix it as long as you're back to stock otherwise. That way if the tech gets the crazy idea to update your phone you can still get root back. If they replace it then maybe someone will get your s-off device

I had this issue, gave the bare screen a nice cleaning with an glass cleaning wipe and changed screen protectors and the issue never came back.
If you have a screen protector on, check this route first. If not, then digitizer it is.

I wouldn't unroot, just flash a stock, rooted ROM. I doubt they're going to look at your Hboot or anything. This way, if they get jumpy and update for you, you'll still be S-Off.

[Q] 1 mm Screen missing since having flashed Sense 4 Rom!

Hello
I have tested different roms with Sense 4. One V porting Rom.
Since I have flashed the first one my screen miss 1 mm border right and left.
I am not alone, and if you have falshed Sense 4, can you confirm it!?
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The size screen stay the same when I flash back a Sense 3 Rom as Revo HD & others.
Have you any idea?
Thanks
Flow & Co
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Something strange, when I take a screenshot the size is 480*800... :/

That's perfectly normal it's supposed to look like that.

Are you sure!?
I haven't already noticed that during 15-16 months :/

Hey,
i have the same issue since i flashed LeeDroid v5.1 and 5.1.1 (i still have the Rom and the issue). I remember that some time ago Lee had some wrong drivers for the touchscreen in his rom that had the same effect. It was in his v.3.. i think. But after an update it dissapeared. I never read of others users mentioned this for LeeDroid v.5.
As Lee's Rom is not an ICS Version, i think that it doesn't have something to do with ICS. I hope somebody knows how to help us
EDIT: While thinking about Lee's Touchscreen drivers i am not sure if it the problem was that 1mm of the screen was missing at the edge or that the screen didn't react on touchinputs at the edge of the screen. But its a fact that my screen looks like yours! And it didn't look like that all the time and with all the other roms i had.

Flow-Wolf said:
Are you sure!?
I haven't already noticed that during 15-16 months :/
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it's obviously a driver issue in terms of resolution, I'll check it cause I solved this problem in my full sense4

Same problem.
memnoc said:
it's obviously a driver issue in terms of resolution, I'll check it cause I solved this problem in my full sense4
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I have the same problem. Hopefully you will find a solution.

Here you go i'm using miui v4 btw but i just checked and it was the same on gingerbread. The reason they did this was because of when you tilt the device slightly you still see the full screen as the screen is slightly below the glass your pressing on.
PS: not the best picture quality but wth (^_^)
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA

Driver issue
xinos said:
Here you go i'm using miui v4 btw but i just checked and it was the same on gingerbread. The reason they did this was because of when you tilt the device slightly you still see the full screen as the screen is slightly below the glass your pressing on.
PS: not the best picture quality but wth (^_^)
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The 1mm gap is 100% not normal. After flashing a sense4 rom i could see how it hapens. After the reboot the screen just got small. There is now a 1mm free black space at the right side off the desvice and an 0.3mm space on the top of the device. The "black spaces" are touch responsive. Thats a driver issue.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1263594
Here you go.
PS: I dislike you XD, na just joking tho i didn't notice before and now i do......

It's not a resolution issue but aspect ratio issue...i don't think it's that big of a deal but do you get same results with GB roms?

Turn DHD over
Heya, just noticed that on the back of the phone says HTC.
J/K

1mm
So there is an fix for that? Because i think thats not an hardware issue. It happened when flashing primoS v3.3 Sense rom.

@Xinos, thanks I have't seen this thread yet
@shad0wboss, Yes I have same issue with GB. But I don't think I had it with official or before use Sense 4! here is the point

Flow-Wolf said:
@Xinos, thanks I have't seen this thread yet
@shad0wboss, Yes I have same issue with GB. But I don't think I had it with official or before use Sense 4! here is the point
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Don't take this the wrong way but it's all in your head you noticed this when you flashed sense 4 and you were expecting bugs. So you notice smaller things including screen miss-alignment.
Trust me if everyone had this problem you would see alot more questions in this subject. Be my guest tho and do a factory reset, but i'm pretty sure it's a hardware fault that has always been there you just never noticed before like i did damn you (T_T) .

xinos said:
Don't take this the wrong way but it's all in your head you noticed this when you flashed sense 4 and you were expecting bugs. So you notice smaller things including screen miss-alignment.
Trust me if everyone had this problem you would see alot more questions in this subject. Be my guest tho and do a factory reset, but i'm pretty sure it's a hardware fault that has always been there you just never noticed before like i did damn you (T_T) .
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No i have the same problem since flashing and it wasnt ther at 100% i played temple run before and there were no edges.

rafassoft said:
No i have the same problem since flashing and it wasnt ther at 100% i played temple run before and there were no edges.
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Then what's stopping you from fully resetting your device that should fix it shouldn't it?
I really don't care what you do i'm just giving my piece of advice, one thing you could try is going into boot loader mode (power down device and then press on button+volume down) if it still has it that means youre device has a miss-aligned screen.

^^
Stay calm men
I have to try to flash a Ruu on my device and see if the "problem" change. Maybe this is not a problem
We have to see. But if we found a man which hasn't it can we call that a problem?

rafassoft said:
So there is an fix for that? Because i think thats not an hardware issue. It happened when flashing primoS v3.3 Sense rom.
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It's not only the primos rom. I've realized this since this thread is started and I'm on IceColdSandwich.
How ever, you have to send it to HTC cause of the issue and use your warranty. There is nothing you can do with flashing a new ruu oder rom.
Regards.

Curiouse
DonPanda said:
It's not only the primos rom. I've realized this since this thread is started and I'm on IceColdSandwich.
How ever, you have to send it to HTC cause of the issue and use your warranty. There is nothing you can do with flashing a new ruu oder rom.
Regards.
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But how this can be? Some magic troll got under the screencover and made the screen smaller? Because the screen is not moved in the device or anything. I know that there is an hardware issue on some phones that the screen is wrong aligned but thats not our case, because the screen got 1mm smaller on each side of the phone. its most likley an software issue.

Has any of you tried boot loader mode? If the issue still persist over there it's a hardware fault as you can't change the boot loader.

I think I am done rooting- thoughts?

Maybe it's just bad luck, but I have had issues no matter with ROM I use. The last two times after crashing, my GN could not even restart in Bootloader so I was forced to get a replacement phone. Only got a few months of use on the first one before this problem happened again. I'm always finding some kind of annoying bug and I am getting tired of trying to determine why this keeps happening, so I thought I'd post and share just to see if anyone had advice. I love all the features in AOKP, but the crashes have hurt me the most. I have tried many others but think I'll stick with stock for now. I love the GN because of the beautiful and large screen. Unfortunately, Verizon will not give me another phone of equal or lesser value and I cannot upgrade until 10/13. I'm starting to think the GN is just not very ROOT friendly.
Does this happen to anyone else? I'm not nearly as techie as I'd like to be, but I've learned so much from this forum and loved all the ROMS I used- when they worked that is.
Hobbes650

Hobbes650 said:
I'm starting to think the GN is just not very ROOT friendly.
Does this happen to anyone else? I'm not nearly as techie as I'd like to be, but I've learned so much from this forum and loved all the ROMS I used- when they worked that is.
Hobbes650
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what? this phone is the easiest phone to root/unlock the bootloader. you cant get more friendly than that.
when you say crash... what do you mean? ive had 0 problems out of aokp.

Hobbes650 said:
I'm starting to think the GN is just not very ROOT friendly.
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import-ex
Here is what has happened the last two times. I turned the phone on and Ill I got was the "goolgle" screen. Nothing else, kept flashing on and off. Tried to restart directly into bootloader but no success. This has happened multiple times now. Rooting is not difficult for me, until this issue came along. Until I can figure out why that happened I don't want to try again. Haven't heard of this problem yet so please understand my frustration and lack of words to describe what is happening.
Thanks,
Hobbes

Hobbes650 said:
Here is what has happened the last two times. I turned the phone on and Ill I got was the "goolgle" screen. Nothing else, kept flashing on and off. Tried to restart directly into bootloader but no success. This has happened multiple times now. Rooting is not difficult for me, until this issue came along. Until I can figure out why that happened I don't want to try again. Haven't heard of this problem yet so please understand my frustration and lack of words to describe what is happening.
Thanks,
Hobbew
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Rooting couldn't possibly cause that.
Bad hardware, memory corruption, bad flash of a kernel or rom maybe, but not root.

sounds like a bad kernel flash or rom flash
just adding root, does not do what you just described.

I agree with the rest. Rooting just gives you access to options and settings that you normally can't access. So you either got bum phones or you did something or had bad flash
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Hobbes650 said:
Here is what has happened the last two times. I turned the phone on and Ill I got was the "goolgle" screen. Nothing else, kept flashing on and off. Tried to restart directly into bootloader but no success. This has happened multiple times now. Rooting is not difficult for me, until this issue came along. Until I can figure out why that happened I don't want to try again. Haven't heard of this problem yet so please understand my frustration and lack of words to describe what is happening.
Thanks,
Hobbes
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sound like you were running a kernel with default fsync off and risky mount options. when it crashed, it lost everything.

Appreciate the help, and glad to hear. I did change kernels and that sounds like where the problem lies. I'm not too sure I really care much about kernels, so I will try again and keep whatever kernel the ROM comes with.
Thanks,
Hobbes

Hobbes650 said:
Appreciate the help, and glad to hear. I did change kernels and that sounds like where the problem lies. I'm not too sure I really care much about kernels, so I will try again and keep whatever kernel the ROM comes with.
Thanks,
Hobbes
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really, i would find one you like and just use that one.

Hobbes650 said:
Maybe it's just bad luck, but I have had issues no matter with ROM I use. The last two times after crashing, my GN could not even restart in Bootloader so I was forced to get a replacement phone. Only got a few months of use on the first one before this problem happened again. I'm always finding some kind of annoying bug and I am getting tired of trying to determine why this keeps happening, so I thought I'd post and share just to see if anyone had advice. I love all the features in AOKP, but the crashes have hurt me the most. I have tried many others but think I'll stick with stock for now. I love the GN because of the beautiful and large screen. Unfortunately, Verizon will not give me another phone of equal or lesser value and I cannot upgrade until 10/13. I'm starting to think the GN is just not very ROOT friendly.
Does this happen to anyone else? I'm not nearly as techie as I'd like to be, but I've learned so much from this forum and loved all the ROMS I used- when they worked that is.
Hobbes650
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Well, before mucking around, search some of the forums, because this problem is not caused by the ROM, or the phone. OSs only crash, wehn you're asking to much of them, eg.: Windows, open too many processes, it shuts itself down, so it doesn't burn out the RAM, it's just protecting itself.
Imagine you would have to work in an office, type three essays and phone with a multi-millionar client, all at the same time, then you know how an OS feels, when you ask too much of it. Just do one thing at a time, let it finish one job, before starting another, and don't overclock the CPU too much, 1.4 GHz, on both cores is enough to run Windows Vista, 7 and 8 64x, let alone the Android OS, which managed to run fine an a hTC nexus one...
If you really want some advice, from someone who has gone through 20 computer OSs and 6 smartphones in one year, then read on;
Take your phone and root it, to get the most out of it. Enjoy the phone whilst you have it and NEVER, EVER say an Android is not "root-friendly". Follow that piece of advice, with the tips I mentioned above, and you'll NEVER have a crash again (BTW, here's a quick one: take stock AOSP, flash the imgs and then put one feature on the, at a time... )

[Q] Screen brightness auto-changes without any auto-adjust on.

I have all possible options that can auto-control the screen brightness unchecked, and the mode set to Dynamic (even if it's on any other one too), and my brightness set at 45 (again this doesn't matter as I changed it to other brightnesses), but I still see the brightness auto-adjust from time to time. It doesn't matter what app I'm in, or just looking at the home screen. Does anyone else have this happen? Is there a way to make it stay where I have it set? It's not really annoying, but I do notice it, and would like it to stay put.

I had this happen on the S4 and note 3. Supposedly it's a Samsung thing. I did see this though
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It's happening to me I made a thread on it too, I've called Sammy and done everything I could I think it's a software issue or one of the sensors is jacked up. In any event I gave it a few days and it's not getting any better it's very annoying to me so I'm returning my phone and getting another one just to make sure it's not a hardware issue. It's the only reason I haven't rooted yet

Its exactly what you see there TW has A " feature ' that dims screen a bit When Itgets a little hot that ls all it is, not hardware problems mine does It when its hot near the camera
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janjannsen99 said:
Its exactly what you see there TW has A " feature ' that dims screen a bit When Itgets a little hot that ls all it is, not hardware problems mine does It when its hot near the camera
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Well mine is going back anyways so i can rule out Hardware failure before i root it, Also when i talked to samsung about it they said return the device

So you rule out hardware issues? Maybe the software like I said?. And by the way Samsung always says return. Everything...it's their go to answer for everything lol
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So you rule out hardware issues? Maybe the software like I said?. And by the way Samsung always says return. Everything...it's their go to answer for everything lol
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Listen to what i wrote i said im returning it to rule out hardware issues, if the new device does it then its definitely software and illl wait for some kind of an update or wait for a dev to get a handle on it. S4 from doing research had the same issues so yes most likely its software but i have to rule out hardware by returning it and getting a new device. My Note 2 did not do this so im assuming its a TW 4.3 issue

Ok...
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Other than that i love the phone , awesome device

In the last week I bought a S3 and a N3.
Both do this almost identically.
I thought I was going nutz...

Returning it won't help. It was happening on three S4s of mine.
Sent from Flip's Note 3

Conclusion: It's not a phone defect.
I have done some testing, and concluded (at least for me) it is software/hardware combo as said previously (heating up). Since I have the phone set up exactly how I want it (rooted and all), and I really don't want to return it since the phone itself is perfect (no physical defects with buttons, screen, etc), I kept a really good watch on when it does it, and it only does it after I have the screen on for like an hour or so, and the phone itself gets warm/hot. If the temp stays below 95F the brightness stays constant. Only if it gets up in the 100s I start to see it, so I do believe it's auto-dimming to cool off the phone. I can live with that since it doesn't get that hot all the time. Mostly playing games, or heavy browsing on the web using desktop mode, and when it does do it the change is slight. I only really notice it on white screens. I was worried since I thought it was a defect, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm super happy with this beast. Best phone I ever owned.
On a related note I do remember my GSII doing it on TW. After I put CM on it I never saw it.

Lux is the answer to tame that issue with auto brightness
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Lux is the answer to tame that issue with auto brightness
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No lux is not the answer I tried that too. I just got my new phone after returning it and it does the same thing . As BobbyPhoenix stated I think it's software related too and it's when the phone gets warm and I think how much it adjusts is based on how hot it gets. I guess I'll have to live with it because I love this phone the screen when full blast puts all others to shame. Hopefully a dev will have a workaround soon

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No lux is not the answer I tried that too. I just got my new phone after returning it and it does the same thing . As BobbyPhoenix stated I think it's software related too and it's when the phone gets warm and I think how much it adjusts is based on how hot it gets. I guess I'll have to live with it because I love this phone the screen when full blast puts all others to shame. Hopefully a dev will have a workaround soon
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My wife's S3 does the same on Lux, maybe acts a little different but basically overall it's schizophrenic. It's possible it's goofier with Lux installed. Now there is another layer to manage.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-3/320459-galaxy-note-3-brightness-changes-while-viewing-internet-pages.html

Anyone else getting screen flickering and bleeding?

Obviously this is getting RMA'ed, but I want to get a sense of whether this is a total fluke or a problem anyone else is experiencing:

I'm having issues with my screen flashing when I turn it off with the power button. It only flashes once and is intermittent. This YouTube video is from someone else but this is what's happening.
https://youtu.be/zmUcMYg-Ic8
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shamdawg said:
I'm having issues with my screen flashing when I turn it off with the power button. It only flashes once and is intermittent. This YouTube video is from someone else but this is what's happening.
https://youtu.be/zmUcMYg-Ic8
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i get that flash on my 6p occasionally since Oreo.

You guys have defective units. Get rid of them ASAP
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Had this issue with mine when the battery got below 20% for the first time. After charging overnight the line went away. Still getting it RMA'd.
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Now seeing a lot of news stories about a burn-in issue. Do you think that's related? Or it's a totally different thing?

aysiu said:
Now seeing a lot of news stories about a burn-in issue. Do you think that's related? Or it's a totally different thing?
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From your video, it looks like a broken OLED panel. You should exchange it!
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Yes, I've been experiencing this too. Every time I squeeze the phone for assistant it flickers and the screen goes black. I'm currently in the process of troubleshooting with Google, but I assume will be a hardware issue and need an RMA.
Edit: So after going back and forth with Google Support, they're having me RMA it.

Dstroya said:
Yes, I've been experiencing this too. Every time I squeeze the phone for assistant it flickers and the screen goes black. I'm currently in the process of troubleshooting with Google, but I assume will be a hardware issue and need an RMA.
Edit: So after going back and forth with Google Support, they're having me RMA it.
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Glad you're doing that. It's an RMA, for sure. I was just trying to get a sense of how common it is. I'm seeing a lot of complaints about blue tint shift and screen burn-in/image retention, but very few people have said "I have this weird flashing screen thing."
I guess that's a good thing (that it's not that common an occurrence)?

if you guys experience same issue call support immediately so that it will be addressed...

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if you guys experience same issue call support immediately so that it will be addressed...
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I don't think anyone seeing this issue is going to see it go away. I was just trying to determine how common it is. Seems almost no one has this issue. Other issues, plenty. This issue seems rare, though (fortunately).

I got a new one from Google. Everything is working properly now.
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amaddux said:
i get that flash on my 6p occasionally since Oreo.
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On the subject of screen flashing. Go into safe mode and see if the issue persists. From what I understand, it is a 3rd party app issue causing this. If it still has an issue it could be a hardware defect.
Safe Mode: After the Google logo shows on your screen, when the animation starts, press and hold your device's Volume down button. Keep holding it until the animation ends and your device starts in safe mode. You'll see "Safe mode" at the bottom of your screen. Restart the phone without holding any buttons to get out of it.

robmilliken said:
On the subject of screen flashing. Go into safe mode and see if the issue persists. From what I understand, it is a 3rd party app issue causing this. If it still has an issue it could be a hardware defect.
Safe Mode: After the Google logo shows on your screen, when the animation starts, press and hold your device's Volume down button. Keep holding it until the animation ends and your device starts in safe mode. You'll see "Safe mode" at the bottom of your screen. Restart the phone without holding any buttons to get out of it.
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Just got off of a support chat with Google and went into safe mode and that fixed it. Wasn't happening in safe mode and when I restarted it out of safe mode it's not happening anymore. The support person said it's not a hardware issue but it is a 3rd party app issue if it's not happening in safe mode. I am going to make sure that all of my apps are updated and then give it another day since I just got it this morning.

In the video... Looks like whoever built the phone caused some physical damage. That's not normal bleeding in the corner from light. Looks like an LCD when it's pressed too hard and breaks

It is more defective unit. I would just return it and get new replacement. My brother had the same flickering on his galaxy s8. He contacted to Samsung customer service and they replaced it. They told him that unit might got damaged during shipping. The package could be dropped hard and damage the screen inside the unit. It could happen to anybody. I hope you Google will replace it. Good luck. . I have my google pixel 2 xl and no issues with screen.

i am having issues with screen flickering (looks like a selfie flash) when i lock the screen - i used google chat support, after presenting my case with rep for 30 minutes, i was issued an RMA. i asked the rep if this is an isolated case, and they said that the replacement should address the issue.
feels like a beta launch and they are trying to make the beta testers whole now.
anyways, google support was good, now waiting for my replacement.

They are RMAing my phone because it was still flashing the screen after a factory data reset and was doing it on the setup screen.

bigblueshock said:
In the video... Looks like whoever built the phone caused some physical damage. That's not normal bleeding in the corner from light. Looks like an LCD when it's pressed too hard and breaks
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Yeah, it probably was some kind of physical damage, maybe before packaging? The packaging itself was quite sturdy, so it probably wasn't an issue during shipping. The replacement phone seems good so far...

this is physical damage, probably from shipping, return it. its a gonner. looks like it was tossed around in a cement truck for its shipping method.