ROG phone burn in!

[Bayonett Priest]

so i used my rog phoen for around 2 years now and now the menuebuttons and even the word youtube is burnt on my screen! what can i do to fix that! i know oleds have burn ins but can you maybie replace the screen or shoudl i look into new phones! woudl repalcing the screen be worth it?

[Prodigy_Smit]

I fixed a burn in once by displaying a white picture and leaving it on for a few days so try that first.

 

P.S. If the youtube logo is burned in for you I advice stop watching so much youtube because for a burn in to happen that needs to be on a fixed spot for a decent length of time.

[Quackers101]

9 minutes ago, Prodigy_Smit said:

I fixed a burn in once by displaying a white picture and leaving it on for a few days so try that first.

is that really an fix?

get a new screen, rip oled.

[trag1c]

15 minutes ago, Quackers101 said:

is that really an fix?

get a new screen, rip oled.

Depends if its true burn in or just image retention. If its image retention then you can usually fix it by cycling through various colours for a period of time. 

[Zodiark1593]

6 hours ago, Prodigy_Smit said:

 

 

P.S. If the youtube logo is burned in for you I advice stop watching so much youtube because for a burn in to happen that needs to be on a fixed spot for a decent length of time.

Pretty laughable that someone actually has to advise against what the display is for. 
 

I’d seen some very severe burn-in on a Galaxy S9, as the owner had regularly listened to a talk show during his drive, and is pretty much required to keep the display on the entire time as YouTube will refuse to play otherwise (unless you fork over for Premium).

[Prodigy_Smit]

2 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

I’d seen some very severe burn-in on a Galaxy S9, as the owner had regularly listened to a talk show during his drive, and is pretty much required to keep the display on the entire time as YouTube will refuse to play otherwise (unless you fork over for Premium).

Ahh well I assumed he meant just watching videos never considered talk shows or podcasts as I dont listen to either myself.

[Zodiark1593]

5 minutes ago, Prodigy_Smit said:

Ahh well I assumed he meant just watching videos never considered talk shows or podcasts as I dont listen to either myself.

There’s a surprising amount of stuff on YouTube that really should be posted somewhere audio-only. Google is far from blameless as well, as locking audio-only playback to paying members (in effect, paying up to preserve your screen) is really quite rotten. 

[G0dSpeed]

4 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

There’s a surprising amount of stuff on YouTube that really should be posted somewhere audio-only. Google is far from blameless as well, as locking audio-only playback to paying members (in effect, paying up to preserve your screen) is really quite rotten. 

Does Google Podcasts work the same way (I Use Spotify so I don't know)?

[Zodiark1593]

5 hours ago, G0dSpeed said:

Does Google Podcasts work the same way (I Use Spotify so I don't know)?

I actually didn’t know Google Podcasts were a thing. 

[Donut417]

21 hours ago, Bayonett Priest said:

so i used my rog phoen for around 2 years now and now the menuebuttons and even the word youtube is burnt on my screen! what can i do to fix that! i know oleds have burn ins but can you maybie replace the screen or shoudl i look into new phones! woudl repalcing the screen be worth it?

That phone uses a AMOLED display. Its susceptible to burn in. 

 

Like others have stated you need to figure out if its burn in or image retention. You can potentially fix image retention. As far as a screen replacement, you need to weight out that cost with the cost of a new phone.