Have I just been really lucky or something with OLEDs? Almost all the ones I have had for 5+ years on phones and such, and even my nearly two year old desktop one, have nearly zero burn in.
I’ve got a buddy who runs full brightness on every phone and complains when he gets screen burn-in. “If full brightness will cause burn-in, they shouldn’t let you set it that high.”
No, dude, they give you the option so you can use the phone outdoors in sunlight. But you shouldn’t run it that bright all the time, it’s bad for it and a waste of battery.
Every time I hand him my phone to show him something he cranks my brightness all the way up. I’m worried about his eyesight.
How is he burning them that bad?
My current phone only has the faintest bit of burn in at the clock and battery/status symbols from the top bar, and it’s so faint I have to actively open an all white image and really look at it to notice
I was lurking the monitors subreddit looking for OLED monitor reviews, without fail every single person complaining about burn-in was running their monitors at 400-500 nits brightness.
I calibrated my LCD to 120 nits, and it’s been perfect. Of course I don’t use it with direct sunlight falling on it because who would do that with a stationary monitor
high brightness is only a problem for static images. when i was on tiktok way to much, i had a burn in of the white plus at the bottom specifically and nothing else
Samsung miniled / neo-QLED panels can be great. We opted for one because it can get way brighter full size sustained and there’s a lot of natural light hitting it from the top, side and back. You maintain decent (if not OLED, of course) contrast because it’s VA (though not all of them are?) and it’s never used for gaming anyway. But it’s use-case specific. They do sell oleds too yes.
I have an LG OLED from about 8 years ago, and I do some rather pronounced burn in. I was also rather careful about leaving anything fixed on the screen. I have some friends with a slightly newer panel and they too have burn in. So maybe lucky? Or maybe your generation of panel is less susceptible than mine.
That said, I’m about to renovate my house, and when I’m done I’ll consider buying another OLED panel. Worth it in my opinion.
This is almost 10 months of continuous use as a monitor spread over 5ish years.
My C1 which I’ve been using as a monitor has no burn in. Gray uniformity is not perfect and there are some minor issues with ghosting on grays but it’s still a better monitor for my uaecase than anything else. I assume newer models are even better.
I got my first OLED (pixel 6 pro) almost 3 years ago with no issues yet, and I got an LG C3 1.5-ish years ago. Still young but newer OLEDs have features built in to prevent burn-in. We’ll see 🤞 the C3 looks incredible.
The last phone I had that got burn-in was a Samsung galaxy s5, even then I think it only started burning in after it got water damage from dropping down a waterfall (it was fine otherwise).
Mine was a Galaxy S8. Barely perceptible, but I noticed that the section of screen where I used to have the persistent on-screen navigation bar started to have some burn-in after 4-ish years of use
For my current phone, I use gesture controls and make sure that there’s no persistent screen element displaying at the bottom of the screen. I still have persistent display elements for things like battery/network/time up top, but they’re too tiny to really matter. Been using this phone now for 4 years as well and haven’t noticed any burn-in at all.
Before I broke the screen I think my iPhone X was 4 years old and i recall the home bar and notification bar had a little ghosting. Other than that I haven’t had burn in with my oled tv or monitor, but I let them auto clean and all that.
My only warning is don’t get an Alienware oled, it auto cleans on a completely random schedule and won’t power on half the time I go to use it
Ah, I have an Alienware OLED and didn’t find the refresh too annoying. For me I just leave it on standby for a bit when I’m taking a break and it’ll be done with the refresh when I’m back. I can get how it can be a pain though, since it sometimes does not pop up the refresh info message for some reason.
I would be ok with it if it asked before starting like my LG. But sometimes I will grab a drink in the middle of gaming and windows will sleep the monitor, and I come back to a monitor that won’t turn on or do anything. No lights nothing. The only way to use it again is unplug it for 30 seconds.
That is very weird. My AW3423DWF will stop the refresh cycle in the middle as soon as it detects an input in standby and come back within a second or two. What model do you have? It might be worth updating the firmware.
AW3423DWb. Maybe the cord was messed up. I just set it up in a different place so I’ll wait and see if that issue persists. Firmware update sounds like a good idea.
I’m playing more on the LCD lately anyways. It’s 1080, but it’s a smooth 520hz
Have I just been really lucky or something with OLEDs? Almost all the ones I have had for 5+ years on phones and such, and even my nearly two year old desktop one, have nearly zero burn in.
I have a CX and a G1 with no burn-in so far. I think newer panels have much better anti-burn-in protection.
rtings.com has a long running test for burn in on OLED and uniformity on LCD:
https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/longevity-results-after-10-months
https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/longevity-burn-in-test-updates-and-results
You have to push them quite hard to get any significant burn in.
I’ve got a buddy who runs full brightness on every phone and complains when he gets screen burn-in. “If full brightness will cause burn-in, they shouldn’t let you set it that high.”
No, dude, they give you the option so you can use the phone outdoors in sunlight. But you shouldn’t run it that bright all the time, it’s bad for it and a waste of battery.
Every time I hand him my phone to show him something he cranks my brightness all the way up. I’m worried about his eyesight.
How is he burning them that bad? My current phone only has the faintest bit of burn in at the clock and battery/status symbols from the top bar, and it’s so faint I have to actively open an all white image and really look at it to notice
He’s on the phone a lot with full brightness. Whatever app he uses most burns it’s UI in.
I was lurking the monitors subreddit looking for OLED monitor reviews, without fail every single person complaining about burn-in was running their monitors at 400-500 nits brightness.
I calibrated my LCD to 120 nits, and it’s been perfect. Of course I don’t use it with direct sunlight falling on it because who would do that with a stationary monitor
high brightness is only a problem for static images. when i was on tiktok way to much, i had a burn in of the white plus at the bottom specifically and nothing else
I’ve had an LG OLED tv for about 5 years, no burn in yet.
almost 5 years on my lg oled, zero burn-in. been using as a monitor, mostly with 75% brightness. lots of dead pixels on the edges though
Same, 6 years on my end. No complaints
Samsung for 4 years. Same. Never had to run the burn in recovery thing.
Wait, did Samsung start selling OLEDs again? Thought they were still trying to upsell LCDs by branding them QLED lol
Samsung miniled / neo-QLED panels can be great. We opted for one because it can get way brighter full size sustained and there’s a lot of natural light hitting it from the top, side and back. You maintain decent (if not OLED, of course) contrast because it’s VA (though not all of them are?) and it’s never used for gaming anyway. But it’s use-case specific. They do sell oleds too yes.
I have one from 2008. Still works great. LG OLED.
No offense, but I doubt you have an LG OLED from 2008.
Source
No you don’t. You have LED backlighting on an LCD panel at best, or you don’t know how old your TV is.
I have an LG OLED from about 8 years ago, and I do some rather pronounced burn in. I was also rather careful about leaving anything fixed on the screen. I have some friends with a slightly newer panel and they too have burn in. So maybe lucky? Or maybe your generation of panel is less susceptible than mine.
That said, I’m about to renovate my house, and when I’m done I’ll consider buying another OLED panel. Worth it in my opinion.
This is almost 10 months of continuous use as a monitor spread over 5ish years.
My C1 which I’ve been using as a monitor has no burn in. Gray uniformity is not perfect and there are some minor issues with ghosting on grays but it’s still a better monitor for my uaecase than anything else. I assume newer models are even better.
I got my first OLED (pixel 6 pro) almost 3 years ago with no issues yet, and I got an LG C3 1.5-ish years ago. Still young but newer OLEDs have features built in to prevent burn-in. We’ll see 🤞 the C3 looks incredible.
The last phone I had that got burn-in was a Samsung galaxy s5, even then I think it only started burning in after it got water damage from dropping down a waterfall (it was fine otherwise).
Mine was a Galaxy S8. Barely perceptible, but I noticed that the section of screen where I used to have the persistent on-screen navigation bar started to have some burn-in after 4-ish years of use
For my current phone, I use gesture controls and make sure that there’s no persistent screen element displaying at the bottom of the screen. I still have persistent display elements for things like battery/network/time up top, but they’re too tiny to really matter. Been using this phone now for 4 years as well and haven’t noticed any burn-in at all.
rooted C8 checking in- no problems at all.
Before I broke the screen I think my iPhone X was 4 years old and i recall the home bar and notification bar had a little ghosting. Other than that I haven’t had burn in with my oled tv or monitor, but I let them auto clean and all that.
My only warning is don’t get an Alienware oled, it auto cleans on a completely random schedule and won’t power on half the time I go to use it
Ah, I have an Alienware OLED and didn’t find the refresh too annoying. For me I just leave it on standby for a bit when I’m taking a break and it’ll be done with the refresh when I’m back. I can get how it can be a pain though, since it sometimes does not pop up the refresh info message for some reason.
I would be ok with it if it asked before starting like my LG. But sometimes I will grab a drink in the middle of gaming and windows will sleep the monitor, and I come back to a monitor that won’t turn on or do anything. No lights nothing. The only way to use it again is unplug it for 30 seconds.
That is very weird. My AW3423DWF will stop the refresh cycle in the middle as soon as it detects an input in standby and come back within a second or two. What model do you have? It might be worth updating the firmware.
AW3423DWb. Maybe the cord was messed up. I just set it up in a different place so I’ll wait and see if that issue persists. Firmware update sounds like a good idea.
I’m playing more on the LCD lately anyways. It’s 1080, but it’s a smooth 520hz