Troubleshooting Issues with my Kindle Screen

paulornothing · 05-03-2014, 11:23 AM

I received a suggestion from reddit that I should also post here to see if anyone might have some insight into the issue I'm having with my Kindle.

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There is evenly spaced horizontal lines across the whole screen, sometimes it's worse than that. Sometimes a screen refresh gets rid of it, sometimes it doesn't. There is also long periods of time where it never happens, I can't reproduce it doing anything specific. I reset it to factory defaults and then it happened again (so I took the pic). Is my screen jacked? Is it possible it's the battery? It's long out of warranty, I assume it's not worth it buy parts and troubleshoot. Any ideas on what's causing it?

Thanks for your help!

NiLuJe · 05-03-2014, 11:43 AM

Huh.

On a hunch, I'd go with a weird cabling issue, but that's really not my area of expertise, so I'll leave the HW ninjas to investigate

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Ian.M · 05-03-2014, 03:30 PM

Possible loose screen cable connector?

paulornothing · 05-03-2014, 05:30 PM

So would my next plan of action be to take it apart and make sure it's connected?

05-03-2014, 11:23 AM	#1
paulornothing Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2014 Device: Kindle Keyboard with 3g	Issues with my Kindle Screen I received a suggestion from reddit that I should also post here to see if anyone might have some insight into the issue I'm having with my Kindle. Picture There is evenly spaced horizontal lines across the whole screen, sometimes it's worse than that. Sometimes a screen refresh gets rid of it, sometimes it doesn't. There is also long periods of time where it never happens, I can't reproduce it doing anything specific. I reset it to factory defaults and then it happened again (so I took the pic). Is my screen jacked? Is it possible it's the battery? It's long out of warranty, I assume it's not worth it buy parts and troubleshoot. Any ideas on what's causing it? Thanks for your help!

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05-03-2014, 11:43 AM	#2
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,477 Karma: 26012494 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Huh. On a hunch, I'd go with a weird cabling issue, but that's really not my area of expertise, so I'll leave the HW ninjas to investigate .

05-03-2014, 03:30 PM	#3
Ian.M Connoisseur Posts: 71 Karma: 57134 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Kindle 3 GB 3G	Possible loose screen cable connector?

05-03-2014, 05:30 PM	#4
paulornothing Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2014 Device: Kindle Keyboard with 3g	So would my next plan of action be to take it apart and make sure it's connected?

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