Is this "glass breakeage" or manufacturer's defect? (judging from the picture)

Yar-PocketBooker · 03-16-2010, 12:52 PM

Folks,

Please look at the pictures below and give your best judgment from your experience with multiple readers - could this look like a mechanical damage of the screen (although it is not visible on the outside of the screen) or it is simply faulty device and something is wrong with the electronics, but the screen was not cracked or broken?

kacir · 03-16-2010, 01:27 PM

To my very untrained eye it looks like cracked glass substrate.

The question is why it cracked. It does not look like it cracked by pressing something on the screen. In that case I would expect a star shaped crack.
Perhaps the frame was twisted, or perhaps the glass substrate was not seated properly in frame and cracked or the glass might have had a flaw.

It is very difficult to judge from a relatively low resolution photograph. You will have to take it apart and see. Even then it might be impossible to judge. What if the glass had a flaw before installation?

HarryT · 03-16-2010, 01:32 PM

Classic picture of a broken substrate - you can see the line of the break running top left to lower right in the first picture.

mtravellerh · 03-17-2010, 07:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Classic picture of a broken substrate - you can see the line of the break running top left to lower right in the first picture.

Harry is right.

Ulli · 03-17-2010, 03:23 PM

My first crashed eInk display was looking like a little bit looking like this. The only diffrence was, that it was much more visible.
My one broke because something hit against the screen.

brecklundin · 03-18-2010, 02:19 AM

yup....Harry nailed it. Yar, you know these things are not intended to help level a table....right?

jonsbjons · 03-26-2010, 08:44 AM

OMG. Broken screen - my nightmare having the first device. Why is this happening? What can I do to avoid this?

mtravellerh · 03-26-2010, 08:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonsbjons

OMG. Broken screen - my nightmare having the first device. Why is this happening? What can I do to avoid this?

Take good care.

No really. The 301 is a rather sturdy device, though.

Ulli · 03-26-2010, 07:38 PM

To avoid, dont act like the display is a punchball or something else like this

Yar-PocketBooker · 03-28-2010, 05:58 PM

Folks, if you could post images of broken or cracked screens here to this thread, I'd appreciate it very much. Thanks!

jonsbjons · 03-29-2010, 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mtravellerh

Take good care.

No really. The 301 is a rather sturdy device, though.

Your fun calming

Because I've heard all sorts of horrors about the fragility of the screen and became a bit paranoid

jonsbjons · 03-29-2010, 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ulli

To avoid, dont act like the display is a punchball or something else like this

I'll try!

EowynCarter · 03-29-2010, 10:52 AM

Not a pocketbook, but that's what my screen looked like

Ulli · 03-29-2010, 01:41 PM

This is a crashed 360°

HorridRedDog · 03-29-2010, 08:27 PM

I've been thinking of getting a 360 so I don't like to look at the ugly pictures.

Anyone know how much it is to replace the screen?

03-16-2010, 12:52 PM	#1
Yar-PocketBooker Fanatic Posts: 589 Karma: 6976 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: New York Device: PocketBooks and Onyxes and anything E-Ink...	Is this "glass breakeage" or manufacturer's defect? (judging from the picture) Folks, Please look at the pictures below and give your best judgment from your experience with multiple readers - could this look like a mechanical damage of the screen (although it is not visible on the outside of the screen) or it is simply faulty device and something is wrong with the electronics, but the screen was not cracked or broken? Attached Thumbnails Last edited by Yar-PocketBooker; 03-16-2010 at 12:55 PM.

03-29-2010, 10:52 AM	#13
EowynCarter Wizard Posts: 4,332 Karma: 4000000 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Paris Device: Cybooks; Sony PRS-T1	Not a pocketbook, but that's what my screen looked like Attached Thumbnails

03-29-2010, 01:41 PM	#14
Ulli (-: Posts: 667 Karma: 1310 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Frankonia Device: PocketBook 360°,302	This is a crashed 360° Attached Thumbnails

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kacir Wizard Posts: 3,450 Karma: 10484861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	To my very untrained eye it looks like cracked glass substrate. The question is why it cracked. It does not look like it cracked by pressing something on the screen. In that case I would expect a star shaped crack. Perhaps the frame was twisted, or perhaps the glass substrate was not seated properly in frame and cracked or the glass might have had a flaw. It is very difficult to judge from a relatively low resolution photograph. You will have to take it apart and see. Even then it might be impossible to judge. What if the glass had a flaw before installation?

03-16-2010, 01:32 PM	#3
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Classic picture of a broken substrate - you can see the line of the break running top left to lower right in the first picture.

03-17-2010, 03:23 PM	#5
Ulli (-: Posts: 667 Karma: 1310 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Frankonia Device: PocketBook 360°,302	My first crashed eInk display was looking like a little bit looking like this. The only diffrence was, that it was much more visible. My one broke because something hit against the screen.

03-18-2010, 02:19 AM	#6
brecklundin Banned Posts: 1,906 Karma: 15348 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: mine	yup....Harry nailed it. Yar, you know these things are not intended to help level a table....right?

03-26-2010, 08:44 AM	#7
jonsbjons Connoisseur Posts: 56 Karma: 118 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: PBook301	OMG. Broken screen - my nightmare having the first device. Why is this happening? What can I do to avoid this?

03-26-2010, 07:38 PM	#9
Ulli (-: Posts: 667 Karma: 1310 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Frankonia Device: PocketBook 360°,302	To avoid, dont act like the display is a punchball or something else like this

03-28-2010, 05:58 PM	#10
Yar-PocketBooker Fanatic Posts: 589 Karma: 6976 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: New York Device: PocketBooks and Onyxes and anything E-Ink...	Folks, if you could post images of broken or cracked screens here to this thread, I'd appreciate it very much. Thanks!

03-29-2010, 08:27 PM	#15
HorridRedDog Addict Posts: 322 Karma: 1592 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: PRS-600 EB-1150	I've been thinking of getting a 360 so I don't like to look at the ugly pictures. Anyone know how much it is to replace the screen?

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