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I don't know what to do. Mine is pretty noticeable when watching videos, but I'm worried I'll get a worse one if I ask for an exchange.

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I can see the bleeding when I watch movies, even when I'm not in a dark room with the brightness at 100%. I have the white 64gb verizon iPad 2 btw.
 
I'd wait a while and exchange. If you notice it when not in a dark room at 100% brightness, then that's definitely unacceptable IMO.

I wouldn't hassle with it right now though do to limited stock and the Apple stores being packed.

Wait for that to die down, and hopefully later shipments will have the design flaw fixed/less common. Also gives time to see if it gets better in case it does end up being a glue not having dried issue.
 
I don't know what to do. Mine is pretty noticeable when watching videos, but I'm worried I'll get a worse one if I ask for an exchange.

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I can see the bleeding when I watch movies, even when I'm not in a dark room with the brightness at 100%. I have the white 64gb verizon iPad 2 btw.

Wow yours is horrible no way you can get one worse off.
 
I don't know what to do. Mine is pretty noticeable when watching videos, but I'm worried I'll get a worse one if I ask for an exchange.

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I can see the bleeding when I watch movies, even when I'm not in a dark room with the brightness at 100%. I have the white 64gb verizon iPad 2 btw.

That looks pretty bad, but it also looks like when viewing an image, even with dark areas, I don't see any problem. Certainly it's annoying seeing it in the letterbox, however, that picture at least doesn't look like its affecting the video. $0.02.
 
For those who say this is normal and we should live with our defects you are so wrong and should really stop defending this subpar manufacturing. THis remind me of a line from the great movie Tommy Boy

"The reason why they have a guarantee on the box is because they know all they sold you is a guaranteed piece of ****. Hell, I can take a crap in a box and slap a guarantee on it for you, if that's what you want."

I expect from Apple much more then a crap in a box, and putting out a device with screens that are like this is crap. Of all my many LCDs not a one shows these issues.
 
I just have to say that regardless of these manufacturing places, apple is actually trying to take care of the issue. I've replaced my first and second one (second one had defective lumps in the aluminum and no better screen). Apple also responded to my email to Tim Cook and set up a replacement on hold for me at my local apple store. Customer service +10.
 
I returned mine this am and had abotut the same bleed as above. They returned wihtout question and actually let me test two out and pick the best one. The one I have now is barley noticeable and rally have to be looking. The attendants stated most will probably have but depends on how bad. The attendant even stated you spent enough have the right to be picky. Test at the store prior to leaving. I asked to take into bathroom and tested in dark area. Sounds funny but got one that happy with
 
For those who say this is normal and we should live with our defects you are so wrong and should really stop defending this subpar manufacturing.

Again, no one has said that.

If it's noticeable in normal usage like in the letter box while watching House above, it is a defect and should be exchanged.

That's a valid test of it.

If it's not visible in that instance, but only a little when on a totally black screen in a dark room with brightness at 100%, then that's probably not worth worrying about is all anyone has said.

Test it under normal use--like watching letter box videos at your normal brightness level--and if you notice it, exchange it. If you don't, what's the point of testing in conditions you'll never use?
 
Thought I would show an example of my first Ipad 2 with light bleed and the second Ipad 2 I received from exchange. I can tolerate some bleed and actually expect small amount around the edges. Do you think it was worth it. I do...Again I made sure to test prior to leaving the store.

First with bleed onto the screen.
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Second Ipad 2

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2nd looks much better, I'd say that was a worthy exchange.

Yep. I think so to. There is some on the lower right part of the screen and upper left slightly. As stated, I bet all screens have some, but to go a quarter up on the screen is unacceptable. Its a distraction IMO
 
I'm pretty sure you can't install 4.2 on an iPad 2.

You are probably right, but I thought iOS for the iPad 1 had reveals of code that are now used with iPad 2. So worth a shot.

Why did you not take your pad 1 back to the shop for a swap? From the photo that ipad is clearly defective.

As I said in my post my friend picked it up in NY, you'll see from my profile I'm in South Korea:rolleyes: the iPad wasn't even released here then and there's very little apple support. Not everyone on here is in the US you know.

But point is, my iPad is FINE now. Hence my thought that some of these issues might be firmware related.
 
hi gang,

I didn't realize the massive bleeding issue until I saw the news earlier today. I've just took a picture of mine ipad2 16G however I m not sure if it can be classified to "serious" in your view that I should return it?

The thing is I m traveling out the U.S. tomorrow night until the end of March but the last return day on my receipt is March 26 hence I have to decide within one day.

What do you guys think?

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hi gang,

I didn't realize the massive bleeding issue until I saw the news earlier today. I've just took a picture of mine ipad2 16G however I m not sure if it can be classified to "serious" in your view that I should return it?

The thing is I m traveling out the U.S. tomorrow night until the end of March but the last return day on my receipt is March 26 hence I have to decide within one day.

What do you guys think?

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That one is pretty bad. Definitely exchange it.
 
If it bleeds... Take it to the doctor.


Why didn't Apple put plasmas in these things? With plasmas black=black!
 
One thing we need to understand.

The more that are returned for this problem, the better it will be for us all in the future.

If a manufacturer finds lots of returns for the same fault, it will become an issue they will address, if not with this model, but with a future model.

If there are hardly any returns then they will just consider it's "good enough to satisfy most people" and it will not become a priority for them.

Nothing gets sorted out until it become an important issue for them or anyone, and worth sorting out.
 
I have seen no issues on mine in normal use so far but I also haven't gone out of my way to look for them by doing things like increasing brightness above where I normally keep it. In normal use, seen no issues.

Thank you.
I'm not going to find the problem in extreme conditions, but I hope the ipad I will get won't be affected in normal condition.
As I already told on this board I had same problem with my 40" LED TVC, and I returned two cause of bleeding/clouding so I'm pretty bored about this matter.
 
hi gang,

I didn't realize the massive bleeding issue until I saw the news earlier today. I've just took a picture of mine ipad2 16G however I m not sure if it can be classified to "serious" in your view that I should return it?

The thing is I m traveling out the U.S. tomorrow night until the end of March but the last return day on my receipt is March 26 hence I have to decide within one day.

What do you guys think?

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If that is 100% brightness in a dark room I'd say that was fine.
 
Does anyone really use their iPad at 100% brightness in a dark room? Talk about eye fatigue. Obviously there are some defective panels out there, and mine has bleed in the above conditions (power on iPad with brightness at 100% in a completely dark room). But at 50% the same test is not near as dramatic, and that's the general level I keep it at anyway.

Also I take these pictures with a grain of salt since the bleed can look more (or less) dramatic based on the quality of the camera exposure.
 
Does anyone really use their iPad at 100% brightness in a dark room? Talk about eye fatigue. Obviously there are some defective panels out there, and mine has bleed in the above conditions (power on iPad with brightness at 100% in a completely dark room). But at 50% the same test is not near as dramatic, and that's the general level I keep it at anyway.

Also I take these pictures with a grain of salt since the bleed can look more (or less) dramatic based on the quality of the camera exposure.

The thing is, there are levels.

There is a arguable area between, that's as good as you can expect for what is is, and, that's pretty bad it needs changing.

Different people will have different opinions.

We are already giving Apple some slack here, saying we will accept screens that are not 100% perfect, the question is how bad.
As was said, all screens, suffer to some extent, some really bad, some barely noticeable. It's a pot luck / lottery.

To be honest, this should be the type of event you would expect on a low end cheap model from China, it's low price, so it's pot luck. It should not really be pot luck basically buying the highest end product you can.

The best they should do is tighten quality control to catch the really bad screens, or perhaps it's actually cheaper for them to use the public as quality control, just ship them all, and either they are accepted of they get returned.
 
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