Okay friends, let’s check who has a Samsung OLED panel, and who has the BOE OLED panel inside his Deck.
Steps to check:
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Go to Desktop mode
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Open Konsole
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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:
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.
BOE OLED LE
2 dead pixels only noticeable on the dark blue screen. The pixels work on other colors so does this just mean a partial dead pixel? I am worried that if I RMA it I might get one with a worse screen. I can barely even notice them as is so I plan to keep mine. I can’t even get a good picture of them with my phone so it would be hard to prove to Valve.
Put your cursor next to the dead pixels so your phone can focus. Definitely RMA, I had one dead subpixel with the blue too as you described. It just means the blue doesn’t work.
The only safe bet here would be to go with the non-LE model to get a Samsung panel. So far I haven’t read about Samsung panels having a problem with dead pixels.