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BurnInReducer - a must have tool

Hi there,

this little 'BurnInReducer' tool is a must have, but a don't exists before!

Since I am using some apps during my car rides, it rules out, that unfortunately some display objects are burned in.

Good or bad, I wrote this app and it worked out for me that this objects disappered from the display after I used this App for 2x 1 hour.:icon_clap:

Hope it helps you, too.

here:
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=BurnInReducer+Tool&c=apps

Cheers,

Gunther

 

[Roger Garstang]

Good idea, but wouldn't be 100% useful if damage already done:

1. Only matters for OLED as LCD doesn't needed it.
2. If using bars or moving bars it is supposed to be used before actual burn in so pixels change and aren't always the same static image (Even when not static and/or dark/black colors there is always a degree of burn in and a limited lifespan of the pixels).
3. Once burned in you can't really remove it, but only burn the rest so it isn't as obvious. Bars would just burn in bars, so might as well just show solid white to burn all evenly.
4. Best thing would be to have a timer that flips the screen to negative colors while the app is running that burns in, that way the opposite color will draw part of the time and lessen the burn in.

If using the screen for long periods of time it would be best to go with LCD.

 

[Gunther]

Thanks for this info!

It was used with a Galaxy Note 1. This device is using Samsung's Super-AMOLED-Technology.
Well, it worked fine. The moving bars are also used by Panasonic's TVs as a feature to reduce or even remove the burned in objects.

I think the hard change in contrast from black to white and back is the key.

"It is not a bug - its a feature!" -> when you let display a full screen color and change than the number of bars than the white bars running over the chosen color.

Cheers, Gunther

 

[Roger Garstang]

Samsung screens have a habit of having screens from the factory with defects too. I have a few solid screen colors, gradients, and an animated gif that cycles the grey scales 0-20 to see if pixels are defective. Sometimes it is a certain color or dark color it doesn't display too. I had a couple s3's with blotches of bad pixels when showing some dark colors I had to return. You have to look at them in a completely dark room..you can see light bleeds this way too on LCD.

It is hard testing the Note 1 though because of its horrible clipping. Some dark colors appear green or purple, and most of the dark colors it just clips right to black. From what I gather they did it because their intense colors made bad video compression easier to see, so to look on par with LCD they turned the colors commonly seen in compression artifacts right to black. I personally think they should have just showed how bad the compression was so people make better videos. Smooth gradients are important and going straight to black looks horrible.