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Originally Posted by s73v3r
Thanks for the help. I guess it's a good thing I ordered a replacement device.
So, when it first was being unwilling to turn on, it didn't have those lines and stuff. It looked normal. If it was broken at that time, and before it was trying to repaint the screen, would it have not displayed like that?
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My understanding: When the screen is cracked some of the invisible in-screen traces break as well, which causes parts of the screen to try to update, but others not. Since eInk is bi-stable (it retains its image w/o power) you don’t see the breakage until it tries to update the display since the eink layer is above the glass and still showing the image that it had on it.