I got a secondhand T-Mobile MDA and while the screen works fine - the touchscreen works, there's no cracks or anything - everything is colored wrong...
It's like if you suddenly decreased the color depth on your desktop version of windows... everything goes to a washed out version of the proper color. In addition, there's kind of... lighter stripes that flicker across the screen when it's displaying colors.
Since I can't really explain it that well, I took a video of it. It's a little flash video like you find on YouTube... I also have a raw MPEG of it here for people that don't have Flash.
That's the default Windows Mobile theme in the video... the blue is washed out, and you can see the stripes flickering on the right as I move the slide up and down. While there's little "arc" of discoloration across the top some times, the stripes are usually the major discoloration on the screen.
There seems to be little problems when displaying things with a primarily white background except for washed out colors. The little water damage stripe under the SIM is still there and white.
Is this fixable? How much is it gonna cost me?
Anybody have any ideas? Would a new LCD fix this?
Maybe it's a flex?
Can't tell much from Your video
i also have this problem... it just happens when i slide my phone up...
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I noticed this small shadows at the screen bottom especially at all white screen.
Try to do a screen alignment to see it....I tried 2 HTC sets and it's the same.
The hermes screen is NOT like this...they are perfectly clean !!!
Anyone has noticed this ?
Ya, I noticed this too.
I can only notice it on all white screens. The shadow is uneven and wavey and seems to extend upwards for about 5 pixels.
Sorry no solutions from me... just confirmation.
Me too. Another thing that I noticed is that the screen is fisically slightly too much aligned to the left.
sectorlord said:
I noticed this small shadows at the screen bottom especially at all white screen.
Try to do a screen alignment to see it....I tried 2 HTC sets and it's the same.
The hermes screen is NOT like this...they are perfectly clean !!!
Anyone has noticed this ?
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Yep, mine too. I think that they are all like that. I've heard of this issue in another thread as well.
The shadow on mine one isnt that bad, tbh, you have to really pay attention to notice the shadow.
The screen is very slightly aligned too far to the left, but it doesn't really bother me.
So, I guess I screwed with something on my phone, but my display now shows "color bleeding" mostly when i open the phone up in horizontal mode. Would this be a problem with the flex cable? if so, just replacing that cable should fix the problem right?
I am able to disassemble the whole phone no problem.
I am experiencing the exact same issue, its bloody annoying.
I'm fairly certain it is the ribbon, but I wouldn't know where to get a new one, so havn't tried swapping it yet.
Did try disassembling and cleaning it out a bit though, no luck
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Could you post a picture of what you're talking about?
Sadly enough, I do not have a camera other than the one on my dz... a screenshot wouldn't do anything since it just looks fine.. but it's something with the physical hardware part. I'll see if I can borrow a friend's camera when it happens again, but essentially the red and blue colors look like it's splotched in different parts and sometimes it even "pulsates"
it doesn't do it in vertical mode, but in horizontal mode.. it appears instantly.
Thanks to someone in another post that led me to the amazon link for the ribbon cable.. the phone now has no color bleed. Woohoo!
For those who want the link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005IMHAGW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
It works great and looks exactly like the original.
I'm experiencing a slight color disfiguration. I traded my girlfriend my phone for a few days and when i got it back, the bottom half has a yellowish tint. Is the flex ribbon the reason why it's like this?
is it the same tint whether or not you're in vertical or horizontal (keyboard open) mode?
if so it might be your flex cable or it might be the actual screen itself.
Yeah, the yellow (and now with blue) tint is in both modes. lower half of both sides (vertical and horizontal)
wait, does the tint change on the screen? as in does the tint stay in the bottom half of the vertical screen and stays in the right half in horizontal? or does it shift so that it goes to the bottom half in horizontal? if it stays in the same physical space in both modes, then it might be the screen itself, but if it shifts.. it's most probably the flex cable.
yeah, it shifts. but now the blue and yellow lines is throughout the screen. initially, i thought it was a ROM thing, so i changed it to see it in a different rom.
sounds like a flex cable problem. I can't guarantee it since it's one of those "replace it and see if it works" deal.
Hi guys, sorry if this has been posted, tried searching and couldn't find anything.
Anyways, I want to know something about the phones screen and I would like to conduct a little test.
Could you hold your phone in front if your face and turn the phone to your right (as you would if you wanted to show someone the screen full on who was sitting on your right) and look if the screen inherits a blue tint. Repeat this but to the left and see if the screen inherits a yellow tint.
It is seriously noticable on my device and I want to know if it is just me. Thank you.
P.S. I have had my phone for around a week and the bottom 1/3rd still has a slight yellow tinting. Any idea is this fades or is this just a dud LCD?
oddlyshapedstickman said:
Hi guys, sorry if this has been posted, tried searching and couldn't find anything.
Anyways, I want to know something about the phones screen and I would like to conduct a little test.
Could you hold your phone in front if your face and turn the phone to your right (as you would if you wanted to show someone the screen full on who was sitting on your right) and look if the screen inherits a blue tint. Repeat this but to the left and see if the screen inherits a yellow tint.
It is seriously noticable on my device and I want to know if it is just me. Thank you.
P.S. I have had my phone for around a week and the bottom 1/3rd still has a slight yellow tinting. Any idea is this fades or is this just a dud LCD?
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I have the same tinting effects when I angle the phone, it's noticable but it doesnt really bother me.
This has already been confirmed...mine does it too.
+1 another one here. It is a slight tint though nothing to worry about or notice, unless you are looking for the tint.
The viewing angles on this phone aren't the greatest if that's what you're getting at :/
So my wife got me the SM-T230NU for my birthday (end of September.) The screen quality isn't as expected. Seems like when I'm trying to read basic black text on white the screen is very grainy looking and hard to read. I went into Accessibility, changed the contrast size to medium, and manually adjusted the contrast. This seemed to help a little. In addition I seem to have, what I would say, is a lot of screen bleeding towards the upper right hand corner. No biggie, most devices have some. Unfortunately though what I just saw really concerns me. While doing a software update, it was on the black recovery screen with the android. I saw a smudge on the screen so I went to wipe it off. When I did so, about a quarter of the way down dead center, the screen started to flicker in an area about half inch tall and quarter inch wide. So I kept touching areas all around it and basically anywhere I touch on the upper half of the screen causes this. Have any of you ever experienced this before? If so, do you think this means that the screen is bad? I was going to just call Samsung but I wanted to see if anyone else had this on theirs. I couldn't find anything on Google. Thanks in advance!!
Hey what's up!
I have a problem I do not know if it has been asked before (I certainly have searched and have not found anything).
The fact is that since last week has appeared a tiny speck in the upper right corner of the screen and gradually has been extended, as you can see in the picture.
i.imgur.com/bArMTJN.jpg
A part of changing the LCD, do you know any solution? I tried the video colors and it seems that instead of improving, it has worsened.
Thanks!