Does your screen show Rainbow Banding?

[heavyliner]

Guys, and gals. With all due respect, I love all yall. Ive learned so much. And am still amazed at what can be squeezed out of these things." been using my six axis as a remote for my phone all day......... alas. I honestly cant believe this thread is so long. The reason "seems simple to me" a resistive touch screen is like 2 parts a backlight/lcd panel, and a digitizer. Also this is a moving part with a life span of like a few years. Compared to a resistive screen which could potentially never wear out but you cant use random stuff for stylus or gloves etc.... now I had the same issue with a tp1 after I slept on it . seems a combination of heat and pressure could make the digitizer come in contact with the lcd, voila, crazy squarish oil spot. Also I noticed On my new tp2 the screen was in fact convex if you saw the contour in the reflection of lights etc.... my oily spot screen was concave a bit and or sunken in. Sagging is my choice of word. Tp2 screens seem cheap on ebay, like 20 bucks. But dissasembly is another issue all together, however there are teardowns around.

[marvin]

Originally Posted by QMeli907

Can you expand on this "black hole"? And thats a tiny pic. Can you upload a bigger one perhaps? I wanna see that

Sorry, somewhere in the mix of figuring out how to place it, it got re-sized.

[QMeli907]

Looks like the two layers in the screen are fully adhered together. That is as bad as I've ever seen rainbow banding

[fr0st]

Wirelessly posted (TP2 Biznitch: Opera/9.80 (Windows Mobile; WCE; Opera Mobi/WMD-50433; U; en) Presto/2.4.13 Version/10.00)

Well I got my replaced yesterday in the mail and it was a NIB!

[Amamba]

So how common is this problem, anyway ? 38% seems awfully high, but then I assume people who are pissed off are much more likely to post.

Also, how badly does it affect the ability to view stuff on screen ? Is it just an eyesore, or would it actually prevent you from working with device.

I just ordered TP2 and didn't know about this issue before placing an order. Seems however that nearly every smart device Sprint sells is plagued with one problem or another. I've owned 5 PDAs and all of them lasted me for years, my sister in law is still using my first one that's 10 years old, have had the Axim for over 3 years now, before that iPaq2215 that I sold after 2 years of use in nearly perfect shape, the only one causing problems was iPaq 36xx with infamous digitizer bug. So at the very least I want the device to last 2 years - is it too much to ask of TP2 ? I intend to use its PDA functions for notetaking, scheduling and so on, this was the main reason I chose the styilus-enabled and WM-based TP2 over other devices.

[QMeli907]

Originally Posted by Amamba

So how common is this problem, anyway ? 38% seems awfully high, but then I assume people who are pissed off are much more likely to post.

Also, how badly does it affect the ability to view stuff on screen ? Is it just an eyesore, or would it actually prevent you from working with device.

In my case, I had had my phone over a month, and had no issue. So I voted NO in the poll. Another month later, I had the issue. Got a replacement, then another month and a half later I got it again. So my vote was originally cast for NO, but it should really be YES. Might be others like that out there.

As for ability to view stuff, you can usually only see the banding in fluorescent lighting and outdoors. If you are under fluorescent lighting a lot, it is miserable.

Mine got to the point where I could no longer operate the device.

[marvin]

Originally Posted by QMeli907

As for ability to view stuff, you can usually only see the banding in fluorescent lighting and outdoors. If you are under fluorescent lighting a lot, it is miserable.

Mine got to the point where I could no longer operate the device.

This is correct. For the most part it was barely usable outside, but that's almost the case with or w/o the banding for me. I used it indoors most of the time, and it was almost never an issue. Maybe I just got used to it. It was annoying, but was never that big a deal till it stopped working altogether. Will get my phone today... Wish me luck!

[QMeli907]

Originally Posted by marvin

Will get my phone today... Wish me luck!

Good Luck! haha

[staudie]

Originally Posted by Amamba

So how common is this problem, anyway ? 38% seems awfully high, but then I assume people who are pissed off are much more likely to post.

Well my second TP2 has the rainbow after a hot weekend. My orininal TP2 I took into a local Verizon store and after some hassel they did replace the phone free of charge . I dont think they will do it a second time, Since this will be the second phone in a years time.

[PPCFreak]

for those on Verizon and got a replacement, did you have insurance on the phone?
Mine is over a yr old now and has the rainbow banding.
I don't have insurance on the phone so wondering if I am just out of luck on getting it replaced. (phone still functions correctly right now but have seen others say that over time it will become unusable)