Screen burn in from Waze

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Screen burn in from Waze

Postby damunk » Tue Oct 23, 2012 5:15 pm

I just noticed that the 2 main buttons for Waze (Navigate/Report) have been burnt into my screen. I've got a Samsung Galaxy S2 which uses a Super Amoled screen and I had to find out the hard way that these screens suffer from burn in when you leave the same image on the screen for a prolongued time.

Since the 2 buttons are the only things static on the waze screen I was wondering if the waze devs could implement an option to disable these 2 buttons untill I touch the screen.

I use Waze daily, on commutes sometimes taking more than 2 hours. So for now I will disable the screen on my phone, but it would be nice if Waze could implement something to prevent this, so other people don´t ruin their expensive phone like I did.
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Re: Screen burn in from Waze

Postby saster » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:04 pm

Second that...
Same burn-in on my galaxy Nexus.

Either have the buttons move around or as mentioned above, only show on command.

And make the buttons darker, or semi transparent.

I run my nexus in night mode all the time, and have the background color set to 0 (default is greyish) to save power.
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Re: Screen burn in from Waze

Postby CrackedLCD » Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:16 am

I've already gotten burn in from other apps so whenever my Galaxy S Super AMOLED screen shows greys, it's all kinds of crazy. But I agree on making the buttons transparent, moving or just activated on touch like the zoom and compass buttons.

I've modified my screen colours to highlight roads, so I expect even more burn-in from having bright yellow and white roads against a dark grey background.

But this phone only has a few more months before the contract is up, and I'm jumping ship to something newer on a different carrier, so I am not sweating the details.
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Re: Screen burn in from Waze

Postby saster » Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:25 am

Do we have any confirmation from waze developers, that they are working on this?
This is an critical issue, and probably quite easy to fix!

Step 1: make buttons and other static information semi transparent.
Step 2: make static info appear on command.

A simple "burn in protection" options to enable.

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