MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - PRS-505 Display Dead?

StevePoling · 03-04-2009, 03:06 AM

Hi guys, i got my SONY PRS-505 just three weeks ago. Now it's boxed up for shipment to Laredo. The SONY website was pretty easy to get to instructions to send away for an exchange. We'll see how this works out. The symptoms was a rectangular region in the upper left hand corner appears "whiter" than the rest of the display, but all the pixels are dead therein except for an odd pattern of lines. Like a set of expanding box outlines. My first instinct was to hard reset the unit. No difference. Several power cycles. No difference. Several page flips. No difference.

Given what I am hearing in this thread, I think I'll recommend the extended warranty henceforth. Anybody hearing similar horror stories of Kindles dying after three weeks of ownership?

03-04-2009, 03:06 AM	#14
StevePoling Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: SONY PRS-505	Hi guys, i got my SONY PRS-505 just three weeks ago. Now it's boxed up for shipment to Laredo. The SONY website was pretty easy to get to instructions to send away for an exchange. We'll see how this works out. The symptoms was a rectangular region in the upper left hand corner appears "whiter" than the rest of the display, but all the pixels are dead therein except for an odd pattern of lines. Like a set of expanding box outlines. My first instinct was to hard reset the unit. No difference. Several power cycles. No difference. Several page flips. No difference. Given what I am hearing in this thread, I think I'll recommend the extended warranty henceforth. Anybody hearing similar horror stories of Kindles dying after three weeks of ownership?