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velox
2017-01-11 , 12:08
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A few days ago, I browsed a bit on the Tablet when suddenly it froze.
Being a bit tired, I just long-pressed the power button to switch it off and went to sleep.
The next morning, I booted it up and the web page I was looking at was still a bit visible, also the screen flickered badly. It was pretty cold that night (with the window opened), this could be of some importance, as well.
Here's what I've tried:
Put the tablet in a warm place for all further actions
Let the battery drain as much as possible, switched on again and again until it shut down (or after it didn't boot completely)
Playing one of those "fix my burned in pixel" videos for about an hour. Didn't find one to cover all pixels, though, even 4:3 ones didn't do that for some reason.
Resetting the device (since it wasn't visible when booting – but that turned out to be just because the screen was too black to notice)
Pressed on a few areas a bit more than I was comfortable with before turning on the display
None of these things had the desired effect.
After a few days of being plugged in, the web page isn't visible (or at least readable) anymore. The "burn in" started getting better at the center of the screen. I assume that's because the display turns on once in a while showing the lock screen (brighter in the center) when plugged in to tell me it's full (normally pretty annoying). The flickering is still there, mostly visible on non-black or non-white areas. While it seems to be less bad, I'm not 100% sure – it's still too bad to really enjoy using the device anyway.
I've now written a small app switching between red, green, blue, black and white relentlessly, because that was actually less work than getting a video like mentioned above playing on the whole screen. I'll let it run for a few hours, but am not very hopeful it'll work. But I will write updates here either way. If it
does
work, I'll put the app on openrepos.
Has someone experienced (and fixed) something similar?
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