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Backlight bleeding
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No trying to understand how bad it is, but if you want to a stroppy answer try this.
If you want to look at a black page in the dark try just using a piece of black card, its cheaper and you won't get the bleeding and we won't get bleating.
And for effect
here is mine, EU device (Germany)
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As we keep getting told....these are fine
Sure they are
As we keep getting told....these are fine
Sure they are
JM2,
Do you think this will be resolved with the iPad 2?
There is no reason why it shouldn't be. If Apple step up and resolve this issue/design/assembly/QC/supplier, then of course. It is a situation that is 5 years past its sell by date. LCD tech is no longer like this. As we all know, the other kit we have does not suffer in this way, across the board.
The problem will be if the status quo is preserved by Apple and they are ignorant to this issue.
From what I hear, I believe the message will be getting across.
I personally think they are taking it seriously and are working to resolve. I just think their strategy is to make anyone having this issue happy so they don't go screaming to the rooftops even more. When I returned both units they could not have been more understanding, admitted that was "not normal or acceptable" and gave multiple options on how I wanted to proceed. I do think there are a ton out there that people are just accepting or haven't loaded a movie in bed yet with. It does Apple no good whatsoever to alert the accepting or unaware of the issue and if folks are happy then good for them. I personally am not paying $900 for flashlights around my screen.
I hope they resolve soon before I give in and find a way to go iPad 1 with my Apple Store credit.
Here are three shots.
The darkest is where I set my brightness. As you can see you can barely make out the screen. Next is at about 60 percent or more. The last is 100 percent.
Believe me when I tell you that is was worse on the first day. It's not going to go away completely but it did get better.
That's damn good at 60%. That's about where I keep mine.
No trying to understand how bad it is, but if you want to a stroppy answer try this.
If you want to look at a black page in the dark try just using a piece of black card, its cheaper and you won't get the bleeding and we won't get bleating.
And for effect
It's not just looking at black screens in the dark. It can be seen watching a movie unless your telling people to only watch movies with no night scenes.
Yeah. This number 3 and it's a keeper. I have no desire to keep it in torch mode so it's not a problem. I actually keep my brightness below 50% and it totally not visible at that setting.
Heres my fresh 32gb wifi +3gatt i got today
disappointed
Now that I look at yours I may be jelous.
Cover the rear camera and take a shot. You can also find a black screen on google images.
If you have backlight bleeding why are you exchanging it right now? Reports from other people say it's worse or the same.
Wait another 30-60 days, the only time it's noticeable is when playing netflix, don't want to see it anymore double tap the screen and it zooms in the movie... lol
Wait another 30-60 days, the only time it's noticeable is when playing netflix, don't want to see it anymore double tap the screen and it zooms in the movie... lol
Just adding my voice to the chorus...
I told myself I wouldn't even turn the ipad up to 100%, but I noticed it pretty quickly anyway at the default 50%.
I really only had it noticeably on the home button side and was pleased to see that a letterboxed movie held in landscape mode just covered the spots, so I thought I got lucky! No flashlights from above or below the movie!
I've been keeping it at 40% and, unfortunately, as soon as the sun goes down, any movie with a remotely dark scene lets the bleed through.
In fact, without a good deal of light in the room, you can see the bleed on damn near anything but a pure white screen.
Again, I was thinking maybe I got lucky and figured I'd get used to it.
But the nail in the coffin was when I came home from work and the girlfriend was sitting on the couch using it. She almost immediately said "damn, you've got some pretty serious screen bleed!"
Keep in mind that I hadn't even mentioned the problem to her and I'm 100% certain she hadn't read about the problem online.
Sooo.... going to call Applecare in a few days to see what's up. It's lovely in all other ways, so if they don't ever reliably improve, I'll probably just keep it.
I told myself I wouldn't even turn the ipad up to 100%, but I noticed it pretty quickly anyway at the default 50%.
I really only had it noticeably on the home button side and was pleased to see that a letterboxed movie held in landscape mode just covered the spots, so I thought I got lucky! No flashlights from above or below the movie!
I've been keeping it at 40% and, unfortunately, as soon as the sun goes down, any movie with a remotely dark scene lets the bleed through.
In fact, without a good deal of light in the room, you can see the bleed on damn near anything but a pure white screen.
Again, I was thinking maybe I got lucky and figured I'd get used to it.
But the nail in the coffin was when I came home from work and the girlfriend was sitting on the couch using it. She almost immediately said "damn, you've got some pretty serious screen bleed!"
Keep in mind that I hadn't even mentioned the problem to her and I'm 100% certain she hadn't read about the problem online.
Sooo.... going to call Applecare in a few days to see what's up. It's lovely in all other ways, so if they don't ever reliably improve, I'll probably just keep it.
That's an excellent way to confirm that you're not going overboard with crazy expectations.
I got a replacement iPad 2 today. It is not perfect, but it is better. It might even be tolerable. It is physically flawless, no nicks or scratches.
Before:
The next two shots are of the replacement iPad at 100% brightness. One is at low light, comparable to the conditions in the photo above and the other is at near darkness. I can probably live with this; we'll see.
we would eventually see steve coming out and say, "well just avoid looking at it that way". Then there would be an outrage from fans... and a few weeks later he'd come out and say how popular these devices were and couldn't keep up with the demand, but he'd throw in a free smart cover for all ipads (and those bought one will get a refund), so the cover blocks out the backlight bleeding. and there was peace again...
It is dependant on just how bad the unit is suffering. All the ones I have seen where the bleed was particularly bad was visible in all light conditions.
Some of the worst bleed was visible up to half of the screen. That was a particularly evil one and must have been assembled by a robot hoping to get home early.
The iPads I have seen have no or very little light bleeding that is under normal conditions not visible. I understand that many people have this problem, but I think we should all try to see the whole thing as it is.
The truth is that a small light bleeding cannot be avoided. Does it bother? No.
If a device has lots of bleeding, then it should get exchanged. People should stop trying finding a perfectly lid LCD screen. It doesn't exist.
The truth is that a small light bleeding cannot be avoided. Does it bother? No.
If a device has lots of bleeding, then it should get exchanged. People should stop trying finding a perfectly lid LCD screen. It doesn't exist.
Still holding on to mine till someone someplace sees improvement then its off to the Apple store.
Still horribly disappointed in
on this. These things should not have been sold looking like this.
I mean I walked out the door with my wife's white 64GB 3G iPad2, Apple care and a smart cover for a total of over $1000 and its got crappy light bleed?!?!
When the time comes both go back to the Apple store and I pity the Genius that waits on me.
Still horribly disappointed in
on this. These things should not have been sold looking like this. I mean I walked out the door with my wife's white 64GB 3G iPad2, Apple care and a smart cover for a total of over $1000 and its got crappy light bleed?!?!
When the time comes both go back to the Apple store and I pity the Genius that waits on me.
And, what are normal conditions for you??? For me normal conditions is to watch a movie at night while I am travelling and if when I do that, I see 5 spots of yellow bleed in the black part then the product is defect. (the other three sides are fine but the one with the magnets is really bad)
I was just reading a story on another forum about a person who returned a backlight bleed unit to be given a 'new' one from Glasgow Apple and to find it registered to someone in the US.
It appears the unit was a previous return to Apple in the US and is back in the system and sold as new.
What a terrible state of affairs if this is true. The English legal system calls the process something...... Misrep at the least fraud at the worst.
It appears the unit was a previous return to Apple in the US and is back in the system and sold as new.
What a terrible state of affairs if this is true. The English legal system calls the process something...... Misrep at the least fraud at the worst.
