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#45856 - LOst? - Wed Jun 15, 2005 9:50 pm

I bought a DS while I was on a trip to the US. I can't return it or anything like that. I have one broken pixel on the top screen (hardly noticable when display is bright). I have no broken pixel in the bottom display (touch screen).

I don't know what to do really. Should I kill myself because of this broken pixel? I need to know if it is common of having broken pixels. Therefore I made this poll.

#45858 - dagamer34 - Wed Jun 15, 2005 9:58 pm

It is noticable and should be replaced.

However, on the PSP it's a bit more understandable.
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#45863 - Toadhead - Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:10 pm

I had 1 broken pixel but returned to the shop and got a new one that didnt had any.

#45869 - Darkain - Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:57 pm

wouldnt this topic be better suited in offtopic rather than in DS Development forum?
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#45871 - assassda - Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:10 pm

i heard that broken pixels can be fixed by flashing red green and blue over and over again

my flatcreen monitor had one pixel that was stuck in either red or white (add more colors)

you could code a simple homebrew and run it (if you have a passme and gba card of course)

#45881 - gl0b - Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:50 pm

and if the dead-pixel is dead? :P

do u have the app for pC? my laptop has ONE little dead-pixel


but my dS screen is perfect and i know about 5 people in the same case (european DS)
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#45884 - LOst? - Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:02 am

assassda wrote:
i heard that broken pixels can be fixed by flashing red green and blue over and over again

my flatcreen monitor had one pixel that was stuck in either red or white (add more colors)

you could code a simple homebrew and run it (if you have a passme and gba card of course)


The pixel is not dead, but is stuck in colors. Sometimes you can't see it at all when it is a white background, when it is green background it is black, and with red background it is green.

Is it really possible to fix the broken pixels with this method?

#45886 - kwayle - Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:16 am

mine are all good, which is lucky for me since my sister brought it back from canada for me and i coudn't of got it swapped if i'd tried :)

#45893 - FourScience - Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:47 am

I got 3 good ones (2 I loan out to friends). As was said, dead pixels refers to locked color pixels, but we all call that by the techie term "dead pixels".

In the US NOA is pretty good I hear about replacement, and stores usually handle it. Dead pixels are a normal "defect" for anything with an LCD. Laptops typically have a replacement policy for 8 or more dead pixels, sometimes more, sometimes less. They are generally considered normal, but manufacturers are still kind enough to try to replace them.
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#45906 - welshwarrior - Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:05 am

Tehre was a program for psp. that flashed red,blue and green. and it worked for alot of people


myself i have no dead pixels

#45918 - tepples - Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:45 pm

Of course, Nintendo would never allow public distribution of an official program to do this, given all the lawsuits from parents of children with photosensitive epilepsy (see also pokemon seizures). Is the dead pixel in the edge of the screen? If not, I could whip up a quick GBA program to run on your flash card.
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#45919 - cocole - Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:48 pm

2 DS, not even one dead pixel.

#45921 - josath - Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:53 pm

tepples wrote:
Of course, Nintendo would never allow public distribution of an official program to do this, given all the lawsuits from parents of children with photosensitive epilepsy (see also pokemon seizures). Is the dead pixel in the edge of the screen? If not, I could whip up a quick GBA program to run on your flash card.


What if they made it run only when the lid is closed, and stop flashing if it detects the lid is opened? I think that might be OK. (Can't do this with a gba rom obviously, but in DS mode theres a bit somewhere that indicates wheather the lid is open or close

#45926 - LOst? - Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:11 pm

Thank you all for your kind replies.

I am on vacation in the US, and I am going to replace my DS today. It's just so hard to spot the dead pixels so I'm a little bit worried. I want a perfect DS, and I have ordered a PassMe. I'm going to develop so much more for the DS then for the GBA because of the better graphics and sound, but most of all because it has the same IO REG functions as the GBA and I like that technology.

My dead pixel is pretty far away from the edge but is not in the middle. It looks white when the screen is black. I guess it is locked in the white color and that's why I didn't discover it when I first turned on the white themed DS operating system.

#45929 - Lynx - Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:52 pm

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What if they made it run only when the lid is closed, and stop flashing if it detects the lid is opened? I think that might be OK. (Can't do this with a gba rom obviously, but in DS mode theres a bit somewhere that indicates wheather the lid is open or close


Doesn't the DS turn the screens off when it is closed. Is that a hardware switch, or a software switch? If it's software, you could do that. But, it's just as easy to add a warning screen before it starts to cover lawsuits.[/quote]

#45930 - Kyoufu Kawa - Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:57 pm

I think it was a software switch. Gorillas didn't seem to notice the lid's closage.

#45933 - josath - Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:40 pm

Lynx wrote:

Is that a hardware switch, or a software switch? If it's software, you could do that.
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software switch. Theres a bit in one of the keys registers you can check if the lid is open or closed, then you call a sleep swi i think. Most homebrew doesn't do this, so they wont turn off when you close it