Screen Burn-in

[axne1]

if you leave your screen on long enough to incur burn in, you deserve it. it doesn't take a rocket scientist...

amen.

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Galaxy Nexus.

 

[arfyness]

I applied a little common sense to my issue, it's not burn-in, it's pixels that aren't "broke-in" technically black on an AMOLED screen means the pixel is off, so essentially what we're seeing here are pixels that are differing from the other pixels that appear to be "normal" due to under-utilization.

Regardless, good news! I found an application that does exactly what we need called "Dead pixel detect and fix" there's another one in the market that's free, however for various reasons I wouldn't recommend it, it looks to be more geared towards someone who's got a single stuck pixel. Anyhow, I'm going to let this run overnight and see how it works for me. I'd also like to see if OP can give it a shot as well, sounds like his might be more severe than mine, and let me know if it works out for you. Good luck folks!

PS. Make sure your your brightness is max before running the application.

Intillex I believe you are correct about the "not broken in" pixels. From what I have found in my searching, a characteristic common to all LEDs is that each individual LED starts out its life shining just a little bit more brightly than it does after being used for a while. With enough use (being on) they eventually dim down slightly to a constant, even, non-changing level of brightness. Since AMOLED displays are made of itsy bitsy LEDs, each individual sub-pixel color element has this characteristic. I'm sure nobody can tell that the power LED on a monitor or computer is slightly dimmer than it first was out of the box, but on displays it is quite noticeable when they haven't all been used to that point.

So once ALL of the sub-pixel elements (red, green, and blue LEDs) have been on for some certain amount of time, then ALL of them will be broken in. The brightness of each sub-pixel will only decrease to a certain point, so once this happens for ALL elements, the entire display should no longer be susceptible to burn-in in the future.

The fastest way to ensure all subpixel elements are on for that certain amount of time is to just turn all of them on, and leave them on for "long enough" however long that is. For AMOLED displays turning the entire display bright white should do it. There are plenty of flashlight apps that use the display.

I can't find any evidence that color cycling is at all beneficial. If anyone has any such evidence, I'd love to know how and why it makes a difference. )

Cheers,
- Nate