Ugh, I was kinda hoping it wouldn't come to this but well, I got a dud. Two major problems, one may be fixable via software, the other definitely not.
I finally had a chance today to sit down and watch a bit of a movie tonight, was kinda looking forward to killing some time between study sessions. So I put on Last of the Mohicans (nothing better than Daniel Day Lewis in a loin cloth, errrrr.... what?), turn the phone sideways, and am shocked at what I see as the dark intro to the movie begins. A veritable ass-load of stuck/burst sub pixels on my beautiful iPhone screen. At first I thought, no way, how could I have missed this? I even created the thread here asking about stuck pixels, how could I not have noticed! Does my phone have a loathsome venereal disease?!? I saw the one stuck green pixel right when I got it, but it was off to the side, no biggie I thought to myself. So i started brainstorming, maybe something under the screen? Dust perhaps? Smudges? Nope, turned the lights on and inspected. Even threw a PS 100% black picture on there and did the unthinkable, I started counting. I stopped counting at 16. Yes, 16. 16 beautiful, designed in America, made in China, broken sub pixels shimmering their happy little broken pixel hearts away. <grumble> I miss my 1st gen
To add insult to injury (maybe my iPhone didn't like me looking at it with such a discerning and disappointed eye today), my phone locked up hardcore 4 times today. And by hardcore, i mean HARDCORE. Not even using 3rd party apps, twice it happened when I went into settings, the other two times while browsing the Web. Total lock jam, held down the Home/Power for 10 seconds, still stuck. Try again, still stuck. Hmmmmm. Set it down on the counter and tried again about 5 minutes later, there it goes, screen goes black, reboots and I see the nice Silver Apple with all its broken sub pixels around it like little green decapitated worms, and I wait. And I wait. And I wait. Not looking good. Each time, it took my iPhone on the order of ~ 10 minutes to make it back into the OS (to the slide to unlock screen). Did you restore you ask? Why yes, I did, right between the 3rd lockup and the 4th lockup, and I even made sure to keep all the 3rd party apps off and didn't add back in any data.
She's done jim. Back to AT&T we go.
Hope the replacement comes soon, guess I can get the 16gb I was contemplating in that other thread. My only concern now, stay with Black or switch to White?
EDIT: Btw, I'm gonna do my best to try and take a picture of the pixels in the morning. I don't expect stellar results as I don't have a macro lens for my D80, but I'll do my best.
I finally had a chance today to sit down and watch a bit of a movie tonight, was kinda looking forward to killing some time between study sessions. So I put on Last of the Mohicans (nothing better than Daniel Day Lewis in a loin cloth, errrrr.... what?), turn the phone sideways, and am shocked at what I see as the dark intro to the movie begins. A veritable ass-load of stuck/burst sub pixels on my beautiful iPhone screen. At first I thought, no way, how could I have missed this? I even created the thread here asking about stuck pixels, how could I not have noticed! Does my phone have a loathsome venereal disease?!? I saw the one stuck green pixel right when I got it, but it was off to the side, no biggie I thought to myself. So i started brainstorming, maybe something under the screen? Dust perhaps? Smudges? Nope, turned the lights on and inspected. Even threw a PS 100% black picture on there and did the unthinkable, I started counting. I stopped counting at 16. Yes, 16. 16 beautiful, designed in America, made in China, broken sub pixels shimmering their happy little broken pixel hearts away. <grumble> I miss my 1st gen
To add insult to injury (maybe my iPhone didn't like me looking at it with such a discerning and disappointed eye today), my phone locked up hardcore 4 times today. And by hardcore, i mean HARDCORE. Not even using 3rd party apps, twice it happened when I went into settings, the other two times while browsing the Web. Total lock jam, held down the Home/Power for 10 seconds, still stuck. Try again, still stuck. Hmmmmm. Set it down on the counter and tried again about 5 minutes later, there it goes, screen goes black, reboots and I see the nice Silver Apple with all its broken sub pixels around it like little green decapitated worms, and I wait. And I wait. And I wait. Not looking good. Each time, it took my iPhone on the order of ~ 10 minutes to make it back into the OS (to the slide to unlock screen). Did you restore you ask? Why yes, I did, right between the 3rd lockup and the 4th lockup, and I even made sure to keep all the 3rd party apps off and didn't add back in any data.
She's done jim. Back to AT&T we go.
Hope the replacement comes soon, guess I can get the 16gb I was contemplating in that other thread. My only concern now, stay with Black or switch to White?
EDIT: Btw, I'm gonna do my best to try and take a picture of the pixels in the morning. I don't expect stellar results as I don't have a macro lens for my D80, but I'll do my best.
