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Samsung S8 green screen problem

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Hello, yesterday my phone started to show some green color on the screen, it started by once, I didn't drop it or something. Few seconds it's working good, but then it returns to all green or all mixed. And when i lock my phone, it starts to become green, even when it's locked (always on display). Tried going to safe mode, soft and master reset, nothing is working. Any ideas? Thank u guys!

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Honestly I've got no idea why it'd do that. Just to clarify, when you went into safe mode was the screen still green or just green again when you booted back into normal? And when you reset your phone was the screen green before or after you restored apps? If it's green on the first boot after a reset then a faulty screen would be my guess.
 
Actually just rebooting the phone will tell you whether it's hardware. If the "splash screen" that appears at the very start of the boot, before the Android OS is loaded, is also green-tinted then it's not software (the same is true of bootloader, recovery or download mode screens). Anything that's due to the Android OS or settings will only affect it when it's running Android, so these other things would be unaffected.
 
I just got the same problem yesterday. There is some kind of green-ish zone in the brightness bar... about the lowest level. But if I increase the brightness out of that zone, it gone.
 
So I factory reset my phone and the green-ish zone got smaller to the lowest brightness level... but still there. It's better then before but again! still there...
 
Oh.... it's definitely the AMOLED display... I started to see tearing vertically on the screen at low brightness... Have to replace it then... tearing is mismatching color.
 
I doubt this is relevant, but I'll share it in case it sheds any light. Years ago one of my smartphone screens started to go green most of the time. I suspected a bad cable connection to the screen, found instructions how to open the phone and secure the connection. That solved the problem. Evidently the part of the ribbon cable that supplied the not-green part of the display was not connecting.

But if you're getting tearing as well, it's something far more severe. I think your hunch is right to replace the screen.
 
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