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Regarding the AMOLED Screen

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rocketmania1

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Hi guys,
I'm here to ask you guys regarding the AMOLED screen.
People said that AMOLED screen gets easily burn in, but i just want to know how many people out of 10 people get the screen burn in ? since i really wanna buy the Samsung Galaxy S Advance. :D
 
I don't think "easily" is correct. I've heard of cases, but there is no trace of it in my 23 month old AMOLED HTC Desire.

Now if you spend 4 hours/day with the screen on and the same static items displayed (e.g. a keyboard) that might be a different story. But from observation of my home device forum I think it is relatively rare.
 
Hadron said:
I don't think "easily" is correct. I've heard of cases, but there is no trace of it in my 23 month old AMOLED HTC Desire.

Now if you spend 4 hours/day with the screen on and the same static items displayed (e.g. a keyboard) that might be a different story. But from observation of my home device forum I think it is relatively rare.
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oh isee..
in that case, can you give me an accurate list of prevention to keep AMOLED screen healthy? since there's some people say different things when i search the prevention to keep amoled healthy. like some people said that turning reudcing the brightness of screen will prevent amoled from suffering screen burn in but some doesn't
Thanks in advance
 
Well I can't claim any expertise. The mechanism isn't going to be the same as crt or plasma burn-in, but I would expect that constant high power usage of the same pixels would be the cause - the OLEDs have a finite lifetime. I have also heard that some colours are more vulnerable than others (can't remember which). So depending on the ageing mechanism it seems plausible that high brightness would wear it faster, and a static pattern (so always same pixels active) would be most likely to produce a visible burn-in. Dark backgrounds generally use less power on OLED displays too.

But the question is the one you asked, how common, and how long does the display last. Also, is there something wrong with the units that show this? There were a few reports of this when I bought my HTC, and the phone had only been out 2 months - I decided that these were probably anomalies or very strange usage, and bought it anyway.

Final thing is that it may depend on the panel. Visit the device forum here and see what people there think.
 
Hadron said:
Well I can't claim any expertise. The mechanism isn't going to be the same as crt or plasma burn-in, but I would expect that constant high power usage of the same pixels would be the cause - the OLEDs have a finite lifetime. I have also heard that some colours are more vulnerable than others (can't remember which). So depending on the ageing mechanism it seems plausible that high brightness would wear it faster, and a static pattern (so always same pixels active) would be most likely to produce a visible burn-in. Dark backgrounds generally use less power on OLED displays too.

But the question is the one you asked, how common, and how long does the display last. Also, is there something wrong with the units that show this? There were a few reports of this when I bought my HTC, and the phone had only been out 2 months - I decided that these were probably anomalies or very strange usage, and bought it anyway.

Final thing is that it may depend on the panel. Visit the device forum here and see what people there think.
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hmm..
do you think i should download an app to remove the status bar? since it's static.
maybe the color you mean are blue,green and red i guess(?) :confused:
 
anyone who has skillz in this case pls help me answer the prevention ways..
since i really want to start preventing from now bcoz i've bought it..
 
I would advice not too worry to much about out and just use the phone the way you want too! My s2 is a year old and I've never even thought about this add a problem, if you wanted to change your status bar, you could root your phone and use custom rooms which have differing colours and icons. I would do some serious reading up about it first especially as you risk bricking your phone and you void your warranty!
 
My status bar is black (so pixels off), but some launchers, e.g. Go Launcher, can hide it anyway (I swipe up to hide/show it) so you can do that without root.

As I said, my device (different phone, admittedly) has no problem after almost 2 years.
 
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