n900 screen freak out
 

i was browsing on opera when my n900's screen decided to just freak out. it went crazy on the display. a lot of black and green lines with some yellow thrown in. nothing was distinguishable. ive noticed this happen a few times before while browsing opera but it usually would come and go pretty quickly. this time it persisted between having a black screen with streaks of color to just a plain blank screen. i restarted several times and the screen would remain blank. if i kept hitting the lock and unlock switch i could sometimes make the weird colored line screen come back but obviously the phone is still unusable like this. so then it randomly decides to fix itself but now im worried about the reliability of the phone. i've had the phone since launch. anybody else experience something like this?!

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hmm after some digging around it seems some people have had somewhat similar issues. it looks kinda like this
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/4127/n900flicker.jpg
but apparently no resolution?

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My phone is in the picture.
As said in the other thread, no idea of the cause.
The problem stopped 3 days later.
No problem since august.

I keep my fingers crossed.

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I guess the n900 is just weird. Mine will have some weird problem that will lead me to think that its done with and i need a new phone. However, inexpicably, the phone will start working fine again for another long period of time. It started doing it again as i type this!! It seems everytime im browsing on opera it does this....maybe related?!

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i have similar issue it starts messing and after some time it disapears and i guess usually it starts when i'm in from cold to warm permisses maybe, wanted to photo that malfunction but now its in good mood, thinkin to buy flex cable and try to change it, any sugestions?

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is my N900 going to die?

(as you can see in the screen shot on the top, black row where status and app name is shown. there are a few lines started appearing)

EDIT:- oh screen shot is not clear on the page to see it

plz click here to view

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Weird. It's a repetetive pattern from left to right, never seen that before. And it looks like it's only happening on the status bar...?

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The pattern is probably video corruption, from eithe enabling WSEGL_HWSync=1 or Smartreflex (or both).

Just kill hildon-desktop or reboot, and it should be gone.

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yes it's happening only on status bar.

i tried reboot and kill hildon desktop too but still same

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I had a similar problem years ago. This was my lonely thread :D
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40045

Restart usually fixed it but not always. Oddly I use to get it more often when I used a specific battery, which I found really odd.

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did you try flashing the device?

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I think I have flashed since then but I didn't do it for that particular problem. I have not seen the problem for a long time so maybe that helped. However I think I did see it on very rare occasions after I flashed it. Can I ask, what is the temperature like where you are? It may be temperature/voltage related. I often see this type of corruption in computers when graphics ram is not cooled or under/over rated voltage. However my post is from January which makes me believe that temperature isn't the problem (unless I was in a sauna at that time :D).

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That means Nokia still are making undefetable Phones!!!
Friend of friend have old Nokia phone (manufactured much before Smartphone era). He get with his phone to Death Sea (much better conductor than just water or just salted water) and his phone stopped working ... but only because the battery were hurted - after changing the battery phone worked perfectly.

Same here - another smartphone would be long dead after such event - but N900 still works - and works almost correctly.