Screen interlacing serial numer starting with F2

[samven582]

Originally Posted by bryanc28

Is the interlacing apparent on all F2's? I have a black F2 iphone 5 and can't see any interlacing...

No. Its a panel lottery

[kockgunner]

Originally Posted by RJCP

It looks like I've officially entered the lottery. The replacement one I got for my initial one with really bad interlacing developed a connectivity problem. One day it go so hot while I was browsing under 3G that I had to set it aside to cool down (I was only on Twitter without location services enabled). After that my data connection under 3G became simply unreliable, LTE would work fine but as soon as it would go back to 3G or 2G, I'd have a full signal but the data connection wouldn't work.

Walked into to the Apple Store with it, got a replacement one cosmetically perfect but with the interlacing issue again. I'm gonna hold on until iOS7 becomes available because the issue seems to be mainly noticeable under blue/gray colors and considering the amount of white on iOS7, it should stop bothering me.

The interesting thing is that this replacement phone was manufactured at the same factory of my previous replacement phone which had very very little interlacing.
God knows what's gonna be the manufacturing issue when the 5S is released...

I'm on iOS 7 and I thought it would solve the annoyance but even with bright colours, there is still interlacing apparent on areas like on the background of a folder, the address bar in Safari, and other areas that are still grey. I don't know how bad it is on your device, but even if you can't make out the interlacing all the time, colours just look less solid and the screen just doesn't seem Retina.

I've seen threads on devices as early as the 3G about interlacing, but it certainly seems it's more widespread on the 5, or maybe it seems so because more people have iPhones now.

[RJCP]

Originally Posted by kockgunner

I'm on iOS 7 and I thought it would solve the annoyance but even with bright colours, there is still interlacing apparent on areas like on the background of a folder, the address bar in Safari, and other areas that are still grey. I don't know how bad it is on your device, but even if you can't make out the interlacing all the time, colours just look less solid and the screen just doesn't seem Retina.

I've seen threads on devices as early as the 3G about interlacing, but it certainly seems it's more widespread on the 5, or maybe it seems so because more people have iPhones now.

I know. It's a really annoying problem and you'd really expect that on a 500£+ device they'd get the screen refresh rates properly calibrated. I will be lying if I said it didn't bother me because it does. It's like trying to watch a FullHD movie in a TV with bad signal.
My reluctance to have it swapped again is what will be the problem of the next one, you know? Neither my 3GS or my 4S had this problem, but all the 5's I've had so far have had this problem in different degrees. The first replacement one (the one which developed a fault in the antenna) was the less noticeable.
Quality control in these Chinese factories is really terrible. My first iphone 5 was a mess of out of the box cosmetic faults plus the really bad interlacing on the screen. The second, more hardware problems but cosmetically perfect. This one, cosmetically perfect but fuzzy screen again.

But you know something curious I've noticed? NONE of the apple store display models have this problem. On the other hand, when I check other retailers' display models, they all have the interlacing issue with variable intensity.

[thadoggfather]

I feel bad for people who have this issue

putting up with it must be agonizing

you can bet 5S will probably have it too