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I'm on android 8.1 and chrome 72.0.3626.105. I think it's an issue with the browser but it only happens on this forum? Does anyone know of a way to solve this as refreshing the page doesn't work.

Here is a post describing such a problem, it's quite old but might do the trick. Check it out and let us know.


https://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-samsung-galaxy-note-3/362260-chrome-black-screen-fix.html

Interesting, I've experience it yesterday for the first time now on my Android mobile phone.
I though that too many apps were open at the same time and I have not enough free memory, but looks like it's not the case.
Thanks for bringing this up.

I'll try what pmalek suggested however it could be too much resource usage as I've been keeping my lightning channel online as a test so that's definitely going to be using quite a bit.

May I know what android phones are you using? I notice that jackg is running in android 8.0 which is the same as my Galaxy S9 as it is still running under Android Oreo but I don't experience any black screen on either the Samsung Internet app or the one in Google Chrome, both apps are also up to date as I turned on my auto update in the Google Playstore. What I notice though is before when I have a Galaxy S5 is sometimes pages from websites including the forum goes into a black screen.

Yeah that's the same that happens to me. But it just seems to be this website that doesnt.

@pmalek, that option doesn't seem to exist in the chome://flags. I can't find one that resembles it.

I also had that problem yesterday. Android 8.1. But only on certain thread(s).
Never before and now it seems to be gone. Edit: still occurring.

Maybe somebody's signature was misinterpreted by Chrome for Android?

Same here. The option doesn't exist. So this seems to be a newer issue with similar behavior, not the same one.
I'm on Pixel XL with Android 9. I'm using the latest Chrome Beta 73.0.3683.27.
Scrolling the black page fixes it temporarily.

Anyway, I don't think this belongs to Meta. This is not an issue with the forum as this happens to me on other pages too. This seems to be related with Chrome/Android.

It also happens to me, also the forum is kind of slow on loading (not an internet problem, I've tried several networks). To bypass the black screen just start scrolling up or down and it will be gone.

This used to be more prevalent in the windows xp / 98 days and with internet explorer.
Basically, it's a graphics / low ram issue.
1. Just disable hardware acceleration from the settings and you'll be fine.
2. Get better hardware.

I've got something different, but still interesting, when I use Opera.
The forum is OK, unless I start to create a post. When I start to post, the background of the input field (text box) becomes blue, different shades, and if I wait for a bit, it becomes grey, several shades also, but different line by line...
It's not so disturbing, unless the text box starts to flicker, which happens when the cursor blinks.... interesting :)

Have you tried using firefox? It works just as fine for me.

Chrome works well for me as well. What's your hardware and software spec list?

I'm not sure I can post it because I think the imei is something to do with the aim (OK I hate smartphones, there I said it)...

Anyway, its a huawei p20 pro with 128gb of storage (100gb free) and a kirin 970. It is actually faster than most of my laptops in terms of clock speed.

Not sure why you guys are having that issue. So far it works fine on my Nokia with Android 9 and Chrome browser.

Two more things that you can try.
Some guy had an issue with his android browser displaying only a black background. Turns out he turned on night mode in his internet settings.
Maybe you accidentally did that as well? 
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2734420

Another site I found for a game talks about a workaround for the black screen issue. Maybe the same steps can be done for your chrome browser

https://forum.catanuniverse.com/topic/3801/android-8-black-screen-issue-workaround

Lol I just got the screen when trying to access this page...

Maybe I should try disabling signatures and see if that helps but I dont want to because they look nice.... Most of the time anyway. Or add everyone on fj to my ignore list...

Many people suffer this problem on android devices.. here is the first simple soloution that you should try for every app if it stucks or having trouble while opening .. go to "setting" and then "apps" there search for that app and click on that then click "force stop" .. it is the simple soloution for every app .. you should try on chrome also .. however if it dosenot help you should try this:
Go to chrome:// flags and scroll to Delegated Renderer (AKA Übercompositor) then switch it from default to enabled.

I've had this happen a couple times the last few days.

Best thing to try is wait a second once the black screen comes up then try scrolling down. Once I did that the page displayed properly. Prior to that I shut it down and restarted, closed all apps, went from wifi to network and back.

Who knows may have just been lucky with the scrolling things but I haven't had a black screen to try again.

I've resolved it twice by hitting the home button and opening it from the open apps selector.

Both of those were today when I finally thought I'd try it.
I put pmalek on ignore and it didn't do it again with this thread but my conscience will lead me to unignoring him soon enough.

Hmm that is strange. But you were already experiencing the problem before I posted here, hence my posts trying to figure out why it's happening.
Can it be my signature or the dark logo?
You probably can't see what I am writing since you have me on Ignore but try to check if you are experiencing the same issues for other users that wear the FortuneJack sig/avatar. Maybe visit the Signature campaign thread or their ANN page.

Interesting, It happen again today exactly on this thread. What a coincidence :D
Till now this is the second time I experience it, but this time it was for a very short time. I just scrolled down and the black screen disappeared. Just to note, this is not the first time I open the thread from the phone. Seems like there is no specific pattern of those black screens.
I haven't done/changed anything yet. I'll look into it more if it becomes a bigger, more annoying problem.
Happened on Android 8.0

I've upgraded my chrome, it's the same version now.
Since the upgrade, my screen is blue on some pages. When I scroll a bit, it's okay again.

I blame the browser upgrade, not the forum.

I have 72.0.3626.96 but still get the black screen from time to time.

Yeah I got it again with you on ignore just now so it's probably not you/fortune jack.


Maybe I'll try disabling signatures if it gets too naooying but otherwise I'll have to use one of the workarounds.

Same issue faced by me.
I am using google chrome 72.0.3626.76 on android 9 and once i reload forum pages, black blank screen appears.
First i thought it is issue with my device but reading OP, i think others too are facing the same issue.
Maybe the latest chrome version is not supporting forum reload or maybe something else is the issue.

I think the problem are the forum ads:  https://imgur.com/gallery/GzKBVUj (https://imgur.com/gallery/GzKBVUj)
The Cryptex one for example and cryptoTV have black backgrounds, we have to check it, because it happens quite random same as the forum ads

i dont think so its really the cause of low ram .. because its a glitch in selected apps.. when a new android app updates comes out it dose not customized for every model of android devices.. thats why this error is hapening .

You're right it's the cryptex forum ad.

Are ads in their own div with separate ids to other ones on the page? I'm guessing its something to do with how mobile apps work.


It's a glitch in the html parsing rather than an issue with the actual operating system.
The scroll approach works.
I don't think updating from a 4x2.3GHz+4x1.3GHz processor is going to do much. The ram is only 6gb but I have desktops with less than that.

Happen again on this thread, please try it and let me know if you get the same black screen :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5099391.msg49743158;topicseen#msg49743158

https://i.imgur.com/DHmw25o.jpg

I don't.

It loads up fine for me... Probably an issue to do with the forum ads.

Looks like the ads are not (the only) problem.
Right now I got the black screen on the "show new replies to your posts" list, which contains no ads.
Seems more puzzling that I thought in the beginning.

I'm having exactly same problem all day long on my Android 9 phone with nevest version of Chrome. I was nervous because I thought that problem is on my phone side and it's getting slow. I already wanted to throw my phone into the wall :D. But I didn't faced similiar issues on other websites.
Strange, so far I saw black screen only after opening a thread. Show new replies to your posts and forum boards lads fine for me.

I've disabled the Hardware acceleration in Chrome, as suggested by Theymos and I'll test it a bit today to see if there is any difference.

If someone else what to try, here some useful links for chrome >

Paste this in your mobile chrome to see what is hardware accelerated >
a link to it > chrome://gpu/ (http://chrome://gpu/)
To tweak the settings go to >
a link to it > chrome://flags/ (http://chrome://flags/)

Edit, the insert hyperlink function is adding automatically "http://" to the settings and the links are not working, just copy-paste them.


Here is how it looks like the problem, I made a video yesterday >
If you scroll down it works ok but.. sometimes you need to wait to scroll down.
https://i.imgur.com/T0K2hVk.gif

Weird thing is lately, it started happening to me as well,  I'm experiencing something similar when browsing the forum using a samsung tablet, so android OS but not sure about the version will check it when back home, but the screen I see is blue and not black.

Will try the tricks and see if they will work.

The advice by iasenko was also suggested by a Community Specialist on Google Chrome Help Forum. A user was experiencing the black screen on his tablet and this was the advice that was posted:

A link to that discussion
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=ml#!topic/chrome/WMkT3pCK3SA;context-place=topicsearchin/chrome/chrome$20android$20black$20screen

Also present in my android device.
But it will disappear after swipe/scroll.. not a big deal though.

No big deal at all, but can be annoying. I played with the settings a little and no black screen til now. I could't find the delegated-renderer in my chrome flag list so I changed some setting I thought might be related to the issue. After a half day without the issue I set back to default settings. Let's see what happens.

Same thing happened to me that's why I end up posting here. And yep, kinda annoying when every thread loads, black screen appeared. Though never encountered while using brave browser which has almost the same features, I bet much better as a fork of Chromium.

What the.... you have 37 tabs in the background (38 total)!
Hitting Back or Home button wont totally close the browser's pages, I'm surprised that you're not lagging at that point. (At least swipe the 37 unused pages.... ugh my OCD)

By the way, if you scroll up a lot, the page will refresh and you'll have to wait for it to reload [🔃] to scroll down again.

It sounds crazy but I usually use most of them, instead having bookmarks,I just open the tab I need.
Like I have a ready search for shitposters which I need only to refresh to start reporting, have the brainwallet ready to verify messages, have some important thread I refer to often, as the rules, search tips etc, have some other not crypto related tabs as well. Very easy for a quick action. So I guess it's not the best option but it's working fine for me ;)
I've never experienced any lag or issues, I have Huawei p10 lite and I'm quite happy with it :)

Have you already solve this problem? It's kinda irritating you know, even if it doesn't show pure black, it loads very slow, some posts ended up being cut in the half just like sa cropped image. This happened after I updated my chrome in my phone.

I already cleared the cache, set the settings to default but still nothing happens. Does anyone of tried to re-install chrome browser?


Well, it really is a big deal for it is quite a hassle, instead of waiting it to appear it just go blank, so dark that I feel even chrome doesn't likes me :(

@iasenko, I'm like nc, can't go to sleep unless all my chrome tabs are shut :).

@cabalism, you can scroll down or hit home and reopen the browser other than that, nothing else apparently works...

I can't reproduce this on any of my devices, so I can't effectively investigate it. But I suspect that it's a recently-introduced bug in Chrome's hardware-accelerated rendering. Disabling hardware acceleration might fix it; maybe chrome://flags/#disable-accelerated-2d-canvas ? (NeuroticFish reports this isn't it)

If anyone can figure out exactly what causes it or whether I can change anything on my end to fix it, let me know.

I disabled that setting so I'll see if it happens again now. It's strange they'd enable it by default though if it's an experimental feature...

I have turned off many settings at once, the problem disappeared. Now I reset all the settings back to default and the black screen returned, tomorrow I'll start turning off all the settings one by one to see which one makes the issue. I'll start with the 2D acceleration first and will testbit for one day.

 :D :D :D

Have you tried re-installing chrome? maybe it's because of the recent update of the app? ( I can't try it on my own for I don't have any enough data remaining on my load to continue on downloading a new app) Maybe re-installing it without updating the app may solve this issue (Just keep on using old version of Chrome App)? ???

Just fyi: I've disabled "accelerated 2d canvas" and the problem still occurs. (Android 8.1)

Did you have to do that? I had hope briefly that it was going to fix the issue  :'(.

@iaseko do you know the settings you turned off in order to fix the issue earlier?

I've disabled everything related to acceleration.
I'll check tomorrow.

Just reported this issue to chrome in playstore and they just suggest to clear the browsing cache of the app. So far never encountered this black screen anymore maybe later  ???

https://i.imgur.com/3tilrHHh.jpg

Today I changed the following Settings in the
chrome://flags >

1.Override software rendering list >
From Disabled To Enabled.

2.Accelerated 2D canvas
From Enabled to Disable

3. Hardware Accelerated Video Decode
From Enable to Disable.

4. GPU rasterization
From Default To Disabled

5.Bloated Render detection
From Default To Disable

Let see how it will act with those settings now.

I'll turn off one every day and report here.


Note: After applying this settings the bitcointalk is opening a bit faster than before.

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Edit:
Got a black screen(BS for short) again with all those disabled settings above. It's not as often as before but still got one.
Last time with the same settings I didn't got any BS for almost two days.

In addition I got a BS while posting this message.

Some observations :
- I left the phone to locks itself with BS on, and when I unlocked it, BS was gone.
- No matter how long you wait the BS does not go away until you scroll down.
- If you refresh a page on which the BS appear, it will appear again.
- BS can appear on any Bitcointalk page, Profile, Personal messages, search engine, on pages without signatures/forum ads.
- I haven't experienced BS on other web sides, only on bitcointalk.

Also clearing the browsing cache was not the ultimate solution: the black screen still occurs now and then.

I finally experienced it on another website too. I'm sure it's related to the last update. I'll contact the chrome/android support to find out what is actually wrong.

Have had the same problem with only certain topics on the forum. And yes only on the forum.

I finally figured out that all I have to do is scroll up or down and then all goes well.

This is the one of the topics that I get a black screen on my cell phone only.

 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5111005.0

But by chance I scrolled up or down and it cleared up. ;)

 :PA bump. Does anyone found solution to the problem?

EDIT: Tried using Firefox for a while, no issues there. Only on Chrome.

Does cleaning browser's data works? I'm using an outdated Google Chrome App and seems like nothing is wrong with this one. Try to clear it's data and cache if it's working. I guess its because of the capacity or ram that the phone can only handle.

Edit: I updated my chrome I also fell this problem and try to clear it's data and cache.

No, didn't help. Yesterday I installed chrome beta  (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.beta&hl=en_US). Up till now didn't experienced any problems. I guess this black screen issue will be resolved with the next update.

Also using Android 8.1 phone and notice I expressed the same issue after updating my chrome to the latest version. In my case I get a black screen when I try to open new thread but after few minutes or if I load another site on a new tab, the tab Bitcointalk was opened on display correctly.

https://i.imgur.com/p6a58yi.jpg

I uploaded the issue on my WhatsApp status due to the fact, I got some tech friends on my contact and got a suggestion that I should delete my lastest updated chrome version and use the previous version that the fault could be from the new chrome version. I did just that and now it's working just fine.

https://i.imgur.com/ZK1eujF.jpg

Conclusion, the fault is from the new chrome version, use the outdated one for the main time.

Yes, didn't resolved the problem. It's better to use another browser  and wait until the next update is released.  Another version of chrome is better to be use at this moment like Chrome Beta. You can also uninstall the update of your Google Chrome on it's Application settings.  I'm using Chrome beta now thanks.

It has to be something else besides the Chrome version. Maybe Android version + Chrome. It seems that most of the users who reported the problems are using Android 8.0 - 8.1. I m using Android 9 and have not seen the black screen anywhere when using Chrome.

I also use Android 9 phone, but I had this issue with black screen. But in recent days I get black screen not that often as in first days when this issue was reported. Probably it's just an issue with current version of Chrome, because as @iasenko said he haven't got black screen on Chrome Beta. Let's hope that in next version of Chrome this problem will be solved.

Update, I just got a black screen on the Chrome Beta as well. It's much rare than on the normal chrome.
Exactly on this thread right now. Came to post that for the last two days didn't experienced it but... The Murphy's laws in action...
What I'm gonna do is to upgrade all again to the last version and see if there are any changes.

It wasn't slow? It was loading a block screen fast as far as I can remember.

And ahh, this is why I switched to firefox 6 months ago...