Droid Maxx / Ultra screen burn-in?

[Lifted]

I was the local VZW store and decided to take a look at the Droid Maxx as an employee expressed some interest in one. There were 2 Droid Maxx and 2 Ultra phones on display and all 4 had the exact same image burned into the screen. I've never seen this on a phone before, and these display models couldn't have been running more than a few months. I asked the sales person I normally work with about this as I thought it could possibly be a software issue and not screen burn-in, and he just smiled, so I assume all of the VZW staff in the store have noticed. I'm not sure how they expect to sell any of these unless they keep replacing the display models.

Anyone own one? See any burn-in yet?

 

[dguy6789]

If a screen is set to not turn off and is at max brightness then burn in could easily happen on a smartphone in less than a couple months especially if it is just sitting at the home screen and not running some demo loop.

It's nothing to be worried about.

 

[openwheel]

Amoled screens will do that, especially for a display model. Normal usage will not have burn in as long as you switch things around.

 

[podspi]

The new droids are AMOLED, right? Those suffer from burn-in. I had a gnex that had the keyboard burned in. My SGS3 has no problems so far...

 

[Bman123]

My GNex had burn in too

 

[destrekor]

My GNex had burn in too

I have a Galaxy Nexus too (Moto X on the way!), and to be fair, the GNex simply has an absolutely miserable example of an OLED screen.

Blue/purple cast, visible lines (on my model), very quick to show image retention, and it was also a pentile model which brought those shortcomings too.

I've been hearing of mostly fond opinions of the RGB AMOLED (not RGB stripe, but they are pixels comprised of the proper 3 subpixels) that Motorola has been using lately. The only negative reactions seem to be those who simply aren't fans of OLED at all, or at least the majority of OLED panels out there.


Opinions of that screen (plus, in person it looked great!), plus the update that improved the camera really helped sell the change from the typical RGBG Bayer filter to one with a clear pixel. It's sort of the opposite approach to the idea of the "Ultra Pixel" smartphone cameras. The whole package seems like a solid product, at least my research leading up to the cyber monday sale convinced me it was the right purchase. We'll find out in time.

 

[scoob8000]

Anything with a OLED (organic LED) screen can get burn in. My S2, and S3 both have it. My S3 has it bad.

OLED screens don't have a backlight like a traditional LCD, instead the screen itself creates the illumination. Certain colors are worse than others for burn in too.

The easiest way to tell is take a picture of a white paper under bright light and view it full screen so the whole display is white. You'll really notice your burn in there.

 

[Lifted]

Some pics I took of the phones

 

[shortylickens]

display models are left on 24/7. Your phone wont have that issue.
If its on thats means you're using, and the display is constantly changing.

 

[lopri]

That is a horrendous burn-in.

 

[Yuriman]

Typical usage won't give you that kind of burn-in. It's likely that you'll have some burn-in where the notification bar is after a while (months to years), but you'll likely never see it.

 

[shortylickens]

Typical usage won't give you that kind of burn-in. It's likely that you'll have some burn-in where the notification bar is after a while (months to years), but you'll likely never see it.

My original droid still doesnt have it, cuz I spend enough time in the email and calendar app to keep it different.