Damn you pixels!
Hello all,
I pre-ordered my 3G S and was some what excited - it's my first ever iPhone and have to say I love it. Then shock horror I noticed a white dot on the screen that just won't go away.
I tried a website (googled it) and it attempts to unfreeze the pixel but no joy.
I have had to pack it up and take it back for new one.
Anyone else had this problem?
Other than that I love it!
I pre-ordered my 3G S and was some what excited - it's my first ever iPhone and have to say I love it. Then shock horror I noticed a white dot on the screen that just won't go away.
I tried a website (googled it) and it attempts to unfreeze the pixel but no joy.
I have had to pack it up and take it back for new one.
Anyone else had this problem?
Other than that I love it!
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Anyone else had this problem?
Over my last 25 years of tech purchases I've had multiple laptops, LCD monitors, phones, and TV's (including a 52 incher) and I've never had even a single bad pixel in any of them.
Hello all,
I pre-ordered my 3G S and was some what excited - it's my first ever iPhone and have to say I love it. Then shock horror I noticed a white dot on the screen that just won't go away.
I tried a website (googled it) and it attempts to unfreeze the pixel but no joy.
I have had to pack it up and take it back for new one.
Anyone else had this problem?
Other than that I love it!
Did you get a new one already? My local AT&T and Apple store are fresh out of stock; they told me to come back in ~1.5 weeks. I didn't have any dead pix/subpix, but I do have a tiny speck of dust/dirt beneath the glass and above the LCD. I'm trying to decide if this problem is widespread enough that by replacing it I stand a good chance of getting another with dust/dead pix. Also, Taskiss, I'm sure you're a nice/awesome/smart/cool person; but I totally don't believe that you've *never* encountered a dead pixel/non-conforming sub-pixel. Unless you've purchased like 2 LCD devices in your life, that kind of luck is unheard of!
New iphone restored last night and can happily report no stuck/dead pixels!
I totally don't believe that you've *never* encountered a dead pixel/non-conforming sub-pixel. Unless you've purchased like 2 LCD devices in your life, that kind of luck is unheard of!
I've seen them, but even that has been very rare. Probably less than 5 devices I've seen in total, but I don't go looking for them and I don't work with consumer electronics as part of my job.
I've never had one on anything I've owned or anything I've been assigned at wherever I was working. My career in IT systems (I'm a UNIX SysAdmin consultant - Sun, AIX and HP-UX since '87) started in '74, I owned LCD since my first notebook computer (a Model 100, still works!), I've had laptops, own a Newton (MessagePad 120, still works!), cell phones, etc. All sorts of LCD, never a bad pixel.
I've seen them, but even that has been very rare. Probably less than 5 devices I've seen in total, but I don't go looking for them and I don't work with consumer electronics as part of my job.
I've never had one on anything I've owned or anything I've been assigned at wherever I was working. My career in IT systems (I'm a UNIX SysAdmin consultant - Sun, AIX and HP-UX since '87) started in '74, I owned LCD since my first notebook computer (a Model 100, still works!), I've had laptops, own a Newton (MessagePad 120, still works!), cell phones, etc. All sorts of LCD, never a bad pixel.
I think that many people have a similar experience.
However we shouldn't lead people to believe that stuck or dead pixels are as uncommon as your anecdote might suggest. I have a similar professional background yet have witnessed defective pixels too many times to count.
Heck, even my iMac has a stuck sub-pixel. It is only noticeable when watching dark scenes in a video. In a business environment, stuck pixels can easily go completely unnoticed. When the screens are seldom used to display large areas of black, stuck pixels hide quite easily in plain sight. Dead pixels on the other hand are more noticeable in a business environment. A spec of darkness in the middle of an excel a white page tends to stand out.