|  02-24-2025, 07:50 AM | #1 | 
| Junior Member  Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2025 Device: kindle 8 | 
				
				a weird thing on the screen
			 
			
			Hello! Could you please help me to remove this thing from the screen I can’t even understand what is this | 
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|  02-24-2025, 08:16 AM | #2 | 
| Wizard            Posts: 1,138 Karma: 12345678 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Serbia Device: Kindle PW5, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle PW1 | 
			
			Empty battery indicator. Connect it to a (wall) a charger and charge it.
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|  02-24-2025, 10:28 AM | #3 | 
| Fanatic            Posts: 508 Karma: 3579239 Join Date: Jul 2023 Device: Scribe 2022, OA2, PRS-350 | 
			
			The splotch is damage to the screen, likely due to an impact of something bumping it or being dropped on it. When you do get it powered up be aware that it could have a shattered glass TFT layer underneath the eink that would spell the end of the screen. If when it power on it has a spiderweb of areas that do vs don't change or change in weird ways then it's a shattered screen symptom.
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|  02-24-2025, 10:48 AM | #4 | 
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|  02-24-2025, 10:54 AM | #5 | 
| Groupie            Posts: 186 Karma: 52364 Join Date: Jun 2023 Device: Kindle Scribe | 
			
			Looks like a popped ink capsule. Can’t remove.
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|  02-24-2025, 07:20 PM | #6 | 
| Fanatic            Posts: 508 Karma: 3579239 Join Date: Jul 2023 Device: Scribe 2022, OA2, PRS-350 | 
			
			The screen can be damaged on the inside layers, even if the top layer is intact without visible scratches. Have you ever pressed a regular LCD screen like a laptop or tv and seen it make rainbows or light/color bursts about your finger? Imagine that but just enough to damage the fragile internal layers. It might not damage the top layer at all.
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|  02-25-2025, 04:19 AM | #7 | |
| Still reading            Posts: 14,975 Karma: 111111111 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper | Quote: 
 Also some older ereaders had the battery cell against the rear of the screen and when it expanded with age the rear substrate would crack. | |
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