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Originally Posted by HarryT
The wrong screen waveform will result in poor or non-existent grey-scales on the screen. Try to find an image with a lot of different grey scales, load that into your Kindle, and see how it looks.
And congratulations on a successful repair!
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Thanks for the congrats, Harry, but I think they're premature at best, but probably misguided. When I was talking about "the pictures of birds and dead people," I was talking about the sleep screens on the non-ad K3. The images are
mostly grey scales, and mostly not there. All I'm seeing is an outline of black dots and the author's name. One exception is Mark Twain. I can see his shoulders, but his head seems to be missing.
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Originally Posted by hunnymonster
Check your screen connector ribbons... Poor contact could cause the symptoms you describe.
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I'm leaning more towards a connection issue or some other form of damage. This opinion comes from my efforts to disassemble and reassemble a K4B I just got with a broken screen. As a result of my labors, I went from a nicely clear 1/3 screen to 1/3 screen very similar to what the K3 shows. The broken part shows no change at all though.
The K3s use a plug connector as shown on the left in picture three, here:
http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/kindlehack.html
The K4 uses a ribbon cable, pinched in place by a lock, like the keyboard connector on the bottom right.
I've reset the K4 cable 3 or 4 times with no effect, but I closed up the K3 before I noticed that there was a problem. I'll try reseating the connection, but it's such a pain getting the back cover off and on. This just isn't much fun anymore.
