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frostschutz · 06-10-2022, 05:10 PM

if the screen does not show any life sign then it's either broken or the screen cable is disconnected

does the frontlight still come on? that's a separate cable though

if the power led blinks the device should be booting fine (with nonbootable sd card, it just lights up without blinking)

broken eink substrate usually leaves distinct patterns on the screen but it can also be invisible sometimes so cant' really tell

I replaced H2O screen once with a replacement part from aliexpress [there are some old posts about it somewhere]. However that screen suffered partial failure after some time (one dead pixel row / column after stressing it too much with fbink ...) and it also has more ghosting than the original screen

06-10-2022, 05:10 PM	#2
frostschutz Linux User Posts: 2,282 Karma: 6123806 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Heidelberg, Germany Device: none	if the screen does not show any life sign then it's either broken or the screen cable is disconnected does the frontlight still come on? that's a separate cable though if the power led blinks the device should be booting fine (with nonbootable sd card, it just lights up without blinking) broken eink substrate usually leaves distinct patterns on the screen but it can also be invisible sometimes so cant' really tell I replaced H2O screen once with a replacement part from aliexpress [there are some old posts about it somewhere]. However that screen suffered partial failure after some time (one dead pixel row / column after stressing it too much with fbink ...) and it also has more ghosting than the original screen Last edited by frostschutz; 06-10-2022 at 05:12 PM.