Help Anyone have light leakage?

EarlyMon · Jul 7, 2012

fattank said:
I've seen some pretty horrific images when I googled this problem, but others don't seem to be having what I have. In fact, the more I look into it, the less convinced I am there is a problem at all.

Here's the deal: For every color other than black (say, a white webpage!), the bottom of my screen (I'm talking the very bottom, almost under the screen plane) shows distinct lines of light. Held exactly perpendicular to the plane of vision, there is no (or very little) evidence of these lines. But tilt the phone's bottom just a little bit away from you and you'll see the lines (similar to coherent wave interference patterns in appearance). In normal use, when I am reading the top of a webpage in portrait orientation, or the left in landscape, such a position causes the fringes/ripples/lines to be visible.

I've already gotten the first LTE replaced due to a discolored band appearing on the screen, and I admit I may have been too preoccupied with that major problem to notice this minor one. Does anyone else have this issue? Don't tell me from memory; you might not have noticed. Just open a webpage (like google) on medium screen brightness and look down toward the bottom of the phone. See any waves of light?

Let me know.

Nonesuch. None whatsoever.

fattank · Jul 7, 2012

Here's my problem: (thanks to my 2009 LEO for the pic!) Notice the first bright line at the top of the pic, which is the bottom of the phone. See the wavy/ripply/uneven lighting? That's the issue!

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1884/imag0051yy.jpg

fattank · Jul 7, 2012

EarlyMon said:
Nonesuch. None whatsoever.

EarlyMon, no!

If this is the case, and my device really is another dud, I suppose I shall have to exchange it again. Perhaps sometime early Mon.

3vodroid · Jul 7, 2012

fattank said:
Here's my problem: (thanks to my 2009 LEO for the pic!) Notice the first bright line at the top of the pic, which is the bottom of the phone. See the wavy/ripply/uneven lighting? That's the issue!

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1884/imag0051yy.jpg

I don't have this at all whatsoever either!

ovrrdrive · Jul 7, 2012

I've tried every dark screen image I have and a few light images and i don't see any signs of any light leakage at all on mine. It's perfect.

fattank · Jul 9, 2012

My replacement (#2) doesn't have this problem! Nor does it have the first problem (line down the screen) or the crooked camera!

But the repacement has multiple stuck pixels! Woohoo! Either I'm incredibly, insanely unlucky, the batch my local Sprint store got are absolute crap, or the LTE has the worst build quality I've ever, ever seen in a consumer grade phone. If it happens to be the latter, the fisher-price phones my family picked up at the local flea market made from nameless chinese brands are much higher quality.

This is my third LTE, and the third with problems. The dark photography is also significantly worse in quality despite the camera looking straight. I really can't fathom why this is the case. It's like each part is made with a ~70% failure rate and lopped together in one device guaranteed to fail in some way or another on day 1.

Very, VERY sad. Maybe I should make a thread about my butthurtness? ...Naw, nobody wants to read that. ;-) But seriously, what should I do?

PattiCakeUS · Jul 9, 2012

If I turn my phone upside down and tilt it back similar to the angle in your picture, I can sort of see a little waviness - but since I don't use my phone that way it's definitely not a problem to me.

If you've got stuck pixels you should probably return it again, and if you're not satisfied with the next one maybe you need to look at a different phone. Not all phones are going to be a match for everyone.

Oh - and with luck like that, it might be a good idea for you to buy a lottery ticket

fattank · Jul 10, 2012

Haha, good tip there about the lottery ticket. Then again, maybe my luck will somehow cause me to lose my house as a result.

The new device certainly doesn't show the problem in the pic, which was quite visible even at normal viewing angles. Like most people, I won't want a phone that isn't a good fit for me. But this isn't about the fit -- it's the sheer quantities of defective devices that keep somehow being attracted to me as if to them I am the patron of a proverbial lemonade stand. But it seems my lemony devices are incapable of producing the lemonade I so doggedly seek, and I am certainly at a loss. Bah!

robcope · Jul 10, 2012

This thread made me check, damn you lol. Not really, we have two Evo Shift's, two Evo 4g's and my new Evo 4g LTE and no light leakage anywhere. Guess I have a lucky family lol.

heavychevy · Jul 10, 2012

I swore i would never buy another light leaking htc phone again after sprint wouldnt take back my e3d that basically shone the backlight right in my face. deal breaker for me. the sgs iii has weak radios again too. so i guess ill be waiting until the next go round though i hate to miss out on lte.

Dreamliner · Jul 10, 2012

heavychevy said:
though i hate to miss out on lte.

Which doesn't exist yet. I much prefer my 10mb over WiMAX than 200kb on the EVO.

HTC gets soooooo close.

fattank · Jul 10, 2012

Maybe not so close. My replacement for the dead-pixel replacement for my bubbly-light issue came with both bubbly light leak and 1-2 (maybe more) dead pixels. Not good. 4 duds in a row from one store. Then the store kicked me out. What should I do?

dustwun77 · Jul 10, 2012

Have you tried just calling Sprint?

Shawn0413 · Jul 11, 2012

I don't know why you would say the galaxy 3 has weak radio. I had the EVO LTE had to exchange it four times for screen issues and wi if issues. Got the galaxy 3 and it is awesome. I had the epic touch for a year or so and the radio on the galaxy 3 is awesome no issues here.

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