Didn't take long to break it...

[Rourke Swift]

Well, 2 weeks after getting this bad boy, I think all my uneducated tinkering with ROMs and settings and cabs has finally caught up with me.

My display is freaking the hell out.

It started the night after I flashed to the newest R3BORN release. By "freaking the hell out," I mean, 9 times out of 10 when I take it out of standby, the home screen is totally skewed. Turning the display off and then back on will sometimes fix it, other times, it just alters the exact way in which it is skewed. When that isn't the issue, I find that using the camera/video at all will frequently send the screen into a distorted frenzy. The slider in TF3D seems to be duplicated sometimes, and overlapping itself.

Thinking back, I had been tinkering quite a bit with the new ROM while--brace yourself for the "DUH" moment--intoxicated. Trying to install custom taskbars, I was erratically following the instructions in the tsowen thread, and had installed skdcerts.cab, nuePowerDriverTitanVogue-101-v1.1-cab.cab, NuePowerCPL-152-v1.52-cab.cab, and nueBatteryTPDiamondCDMA-106-v1.0-pack.zip at one time or another in an effort to make them work, which (in retrospect) seems like possibly a bad idea. Maybe not completely debilitating, but not a great idea.

Long story short, weird crap like my battery reporting that it was completely low when fully charged, my WiFi being turned on (and couldn't be disabled) after a soft reset, and the phone generally misbehaving prompted me to do a hard reset. I took the next few hours to reinstall all my programs--omitting, of course, the taskbar stuff I'd fubared--and things were great... until the next day at work when the video began to act up.

3 hard resets later, with less and less added until testing on a clean install, I still got temperamental video performance. Everything from the bottom blind skewing into the softkey text to the camera juxtaposing right and left. Finally I reflashed the ROM and recreated the problem; flashed to an earlier version of Mighty and recreated the problem; then flashed to Silence and recreated the problem.

At this point, I can only assume one of two things:

1. Either the particular nuePower/NueBattery cabs I installed were not correct for my phone (or the order in which I installed them), and created some sort of hardware problem,

or...

2. My video went out and it simply coincided with the time I reflashed and was tinkering with my phone.

Any thoughts or suggestions?