What is Reddit's opinion of LCD & AMOLED-Test?

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Basically, the status bar in Windows will burn onto the screen. Windows by default uses relatively bright colors and persistent GUI features. Combine those two and that equals burn-in in a relatively short period of time.

OLED burn-in comes up, a lot of Redditors mention that their OLED smartphone doesn't have burn in issues. That's almost always not true and you can test it yourself using a gray background. If you have a persistent navigation bar, you definitely have that afterimage perma-etched into your display. It's just not noticeable because that burn looks like a nav bar.

For those interested, you can test for yourself whether or not your OLED has burn-in:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lappe.tim.android.lcdtest&hl=en

EDIT: My six month old Pixel has burn in. Minimum screen brightness.

Is it burned in or is it a temporary image retention? I've noticed this exact thing but it goes away after a few hours.

Try running an OLED burn in fixer like this. Fixes image retentions for me so I know it's not burn-in. Put phone on full brightness and on each color for like 2 minutes or so.

I just used this tool to display the subpixel colors on my tablet. No sign of burn in whatsoever. Its a device I bought nearly two years ago and that I use every day to an extent that I need to recharge it daily.

I did the same on my S4 and also found no signs of burn in. Every picture is completely uniform. I bought the phone a few months after the tablet but used off of Ebay. If I remember correct it was already a year old according to the documentation from the seller. I did the same test back then btw.

Don't get me wrong, I no that burn in is not a myth. My girlfriend's Galaxy S3 Mini burned in quite badly in less than a year. But she used that phone exclusively with 100% brightness (the device lacked an ambient light sensor for whatever reason) and is a first grade Facebook junkie, with I assume at least 80% of her usage at that time was within that app.

I don't really do anything to keep my devices from burning in though. I naturally adjust my brightness on the tablet up to a few times a hour if the ambient brightness changes just to avoid eye strain (I can read that way as strainless as on E-Ink) but use full brightness whenever necessary. I just use my devices so versatile that they don't get subjected to a lot of static imagery naturally I guess.

I do however don't have a status bar (immersive mode system wide) on my device since I got a smartwatch in late 2014.

I agree with you though that even a little burn in after some time is often not so problematic to offset the advantages of OLED.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lappe.tim.android.lcdtest

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lappe.tim.android.lcdtest That with 18:9 mode.

Try using a burn in fixer app like this

Put your phone on max brightness and swipe through the different colors, leaving them on for maybe 5 min for each color. Make sure it's full screen

This may help if it's image retention. If it's actually burned in though, gotta send in to Samsung :(