red stripes on the screen

[spn-x]

Yesterday evening I noticed that there is something wrong with my LCD screen...


It has these weird red stripes.. When I open/close the lid the whole screen goes red/ more red stripes appear.


here are 2 photos from minimenu where u can see what I mean with "red stripes"


it seems that the whole screen went kind of red.

another one :

 

[Prometheus]

How old is your Pandora?


I ask because earlier units had LCD cables that are now known to be defective, and which will inevitably break and cause weird display issues in this vein.

 

[spn-x]

Hm, I don't know whe exactly, because I bought it from "Cloudand" ( from the german gp2x forum) ... but he wrote a review in 2011 so maybe it's to too old..

 

[slaeshjag]

The first type of LCD cable is known to be flawed, and is covered by warranty afaik..

 

[spn-x]

hm, I think I'll ask ED about that...


btw.: I think that issue is there for a much longer time then yesterday.. but in the past I just thought "hm, looks a bit different then the second before.." but never had these weird red parts .. and now it's changing colors all the time


edit.: some people in this thread (http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/8497-repairs-send-them-now-or-wait/) have the same problem .. and they all ship it back to ED.. so I think thats what I'll also do

 

[mcobit]

I had something like this, too, where some pixels went straight red.


ED said it was a fault at the lcdcablecomnnector, which he was able to fix.

 

[spn-x]

I'll probably wait till he has implemented the upgrade option in his shop.


btw.: how much will the ram upgrade cost ?

 

[Nintendo]

It looks like RSoD?

 

[Link]

I'll probably wait till he has implemented the upgrade option in his shop.


btw.: how much will the ram upgrade cost ?

You can't just upgrade the RAM, you'll have to upgrade the entire PCB to a ReBirth Edition (512MB RAM) or a 1GHz Pandora (newer SOC with 512MB RAM).


I don't know the pricing ED'll be asking.

 

[spn-x]

I'll probably wait till he has implemented the upgrade option in his shop.


btw.: how much will the ram upgrade cost ?

You can't just upgrade the RAM, you'll have to upgrade the entire PCB to a ReBirth Edition (512MB RAM) or a 1GHz Pandora (newer SOC with 512MB RAM).


I don't know the pricing ED'll be asking.

I already asked ED, he said I'd be 150 €.