Screen Flickering

[fzac]

I just bought a cowon J3 and I can see that the screen is flickering a little bit all the time, not much but just enough to be a bit annoying. Is it normal ? Do I am the only one who have this problem ?


I can feel that the bottom of the J3 become warm a little bit too, is it normal ???

Thank for your help!

[CrowdAds]

[wrathchild]

no to all three questions. I would send it back for a replacement

[cpurick]

If you have multiple embedded album art images, the J3 will cycle between them automatically. With MediaMonkey it's easy to get duplicate images in a track, in which case the player will appear to flicker when what it's really doing is alternating between two identical album cover images in the track.

[WalkGood]

cpurick good point to bring up, and does the cycling between album art pictures make it run warm? I can see that causing it ...

[The DarkSide]

Originally Posted by cpurick

If you have multiple embedded album art images, the J3 will cycle between them automatically. With MediaMonkey it's easy to get duplicate images in a track, in which case the player will appear to flicker when what it's really doing is alternating between two identical album cover images in the track.

Yup, it does that w/my J3 as well as it changes album art.

[cpurick]

WalkGood, warmth is probably associated with battery activity. Charging from a deep discharge is probably the warmest thing you can do, but I wouldn't be surprised if using Bluetooth warms the device too, based on how much people say Bluetooth shortens battery life.

Maybe watching video, or any activity that keeps the screen on for a long time. The display itself won't get warm, but it taps the battery a lot harder than simple music playback.