Okay friends, let’s check who has a Samsung OLED panel, and who has the BOE OLED panel inside his Deck.

Steps to check:

  1. Go to Desktop mode

  2. Open Konsole

  3. Paste the following command into the terminal:

cat /sys/class/drm/card0-eDP-1/edid | hexdump -C

You will get the output like in this screenshot:

https://imgur.com/a/Y1jdjmr

The marked number is relevant and means the following:

01: 800x1280 @59.998545 (BOE, LCD)

02: No longer present

03: 800x1280 @90.003892 (Samsung, OLED)

04: 800x1280 @90.061454 (BOE, OLED)

So my results are:

Model: Steam Deck 512GB OLED

Panel: Samsung OLED

What’s yours? Please also don’t forget to post the model, so we can analyze if there’s some correlation.

  • Tricky-Knowledge-474@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Ohhh shit, I just found out I have the BOE Oled panel, and while doing that funny thing also found out I have a dead pixel haha. I was able to tell because I was on reddit on desktop mode and while reading this post saw a super tiny dot all the way to the right about an inch from the trackpad. BUT for me this is way to small to really care about, I can’t notice it unless I really focus on it.

    Can this dead pixel affect anything else, maybe the oled panel will eventually get worse ? Because if not, I will keep my Oled LE the way it is because IM A HAPPY PERSON WITH IT 🫣

    • After-Stop6526@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Not really, you’re just as likely to get a perfect screen develop a bad pixel months later as to get one with a bad pixel develop another.

      • ecruz010@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I think the main issue is that given what we’ve seen in this thread it is possible that the BOE display might be more likely to develop a bad pixel than the Samsung display.