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Backlight bleeding

Well I just got back with iPad 2 #4 and it's about as bleed free as you can get. Even at 100% you need to squint to see anything. This is what I would call a perfect screen. Very happy iPad owner. Finally.

Just so you know it has to be a brown box unit. The genius just came out from back with it. It had the cellophane wrap on it. It looked factory fresh to me. I even asked and he said it's new. Not a blemish on the glass nor on the case. It looks better than the one I returned.

I'll post pics when it gets darker out.
 
VidPro said:
Well I just got back with iPad 2 #4 and it's about as bleed free as you can get. Even at 100% you need to squint to see anything. This is what I would call a perfect screen. Very happy iPad owner. Finally.

Just so you know it has to be a brown box unit. The genius just came out from back with it. It had the cellophane wrap on it. It looked factory fresh to me. I even asked and he said it's new. Not a blemish on the glass nor on the case. It looks better than the one I returned.

I'll post pics when it gets darker out.
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I've been thru the same experience.

My first iPad 2 was horrible. The worst defect of any Apple product I've had, and I have a huge amount of their computers and other items.

Yesterday I took it into my local store and got a brown box replacement. Wow what an improvement!

I was so happy that I decided to buy a second one. It's as good as the replacement, so obviously Apple has fixed the light leak problem.

It seems that even though Apples quality is slipping, at least once they get enough complaints they realize they must improve.

Hopefully they'll decide to go back to the higher quality they used to maintain.
 
Couldn't have said this better myself.

doubledown7d said:
It is hard for me to believe all the posts saying just ignore it or get over it. The IP2 wasn't advertised as "the new and improved iPad2 now with more bleed!". It is supposed to be an expensive consumer want it device and people should get what they pay for, a device with no issues, no matter how willing some people are to overlook it. If you bought a ferrari, paid top dollar, and the transmission would shift, but it would grind and skip just a little, would you say, "Oh but I have a mighty Ferrari and I'm willing to overlook it, just shift slower and it won't be as noticeable" or would you expect to get exactly what you paid for?
Well apparently Apple realized that many of us do not think it is OK. I read an article last night (sorry should have sourced it) stating they are looking at two or three new backlight manufacturers to start contracting so future models will not have this issue. The part that bugs me most about it is that if they are taking this step they realize they have put inferior QC'd parts in their devices and I haven't seen any admission on their part saying sorry to the customers who shell out $500 and up to support them and make their record profits. I would love to see them step up and replace ip2s for those with issues when the new ones come out with the new parts. Sure this would cost them money, but also earn them customer loyalty. They could refurb those with the new parts and send them out as future replacements, it would not be a total loss.
Obviously, this is just my opinion. I am one of those who believes you should get a perfect item when you pay for it. In fact I expect it. Nothing is so amazing that I will pay full price for it when it has issues, and no company is worth rooting for if it will profit on inferior parts at the cost of customer dissatisfaction.
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I can't believe but me pixels righted themselves with one of those pixel flashing movies. hopefully they play nice now because this unit is a bleed friendly. :)
 
VidPro said:
I can't believe but me pixels righted themselves with one of those pixel flashing movies. hopefully they play nice now because this unit is a bleed friendly. :)
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I have a dead pixel. Ordered a replacement and the will phone me when it's in. I think it's rather bad the amount of people having pixel problems.
 
maclaptop said:
I'm sure you'll be OK now, I have used that software, its a one time repair. Mine (a Laptop) never failed after that.
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I spoke too soon. It seems to be flickering and it's bright white again. I'm approaching top level frustration with this whole ordeal. I might just sell it and try the return thing until I find a good one. I got the this is the last return you can make from the Apple store.
 
JM2-uk said:
What a witty reposte. You knocked me down a peg or two there :D:D:D:D whilst not really answering anything :rofl:
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Yeah, like I said, that specific poster has ignored my post multiple times... even after I mentioned him ignoring it, AND linked him to the posts he ignored.... all while trying to sound superior and belittling at the same time. Deflection at it's best... perhaps he's a closet politician. One thing is for sure, he's obviously no LCD expert.
 
This is my first replacement from apple... Not sure if I should try again.
 

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This is my first replacement from apple... Not sure if I should try again.
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That looks pretty good. If if it goes away at the brightness level u like I'd keep it. Not only are there displays with crappy light bleed u may find yourself with less pixels you payed for.
 
2nd one's a charm! :)

I purchased my first ipad 2, 2 weeks ago exactly! I loved it for the first day, but as soon as it was night time and it was dark i was watching a movie and i noticed quite a bit of backlight bleeding up in the top left corner. From there it trickled down the left side and all the way down across the bottom.:mad: I was furious! I am picky but this would bother just about everyone. Sometimes when the screen was on full brightness it would illuminate the whole top corner!

So yesterday i took it to the closest apple store and i brought my box and cables and everything (not necessary) and i talked to the genius bar. They told me that there were two options.

1.) Get a full refund and walk away (i was within the 14 days)
2.) See if there was a new iPad 2 and test the 2 and give me the better one.

He went in the back and found one (16gb Black Wi-Fi only) same as my first one. It was in a brown box so i asked if it was refurbished, and he said with 100% sureness that it was a BRAND NEW one in a brown box to save money on packaging. He took mine in the back with 2 other genius bar workers and compared the 2. To my surprise they were back there for a good 15 mins. He came back and announced that the new one was great! He let me keep all my packaging and cables and just replaced the actual ipad2. it was incredible customer service and very thorough. When i got home i restored it through itunes (super easy) then took a black background and went in my closet adn looked at it. It was perfect, not a single bit of bleeding or yellow spots, no dead pixels or anything.

The only thing i did notice was when you tilt it to the side a little bit you get a pinkish tint. I did the same thing with my ipod touch, my dads smart phone (dorid x) and a couple other devices and they also turned a pinkish color when tilting them. I believe this is a LCD thing and not a real defect. Is it? If so it really doesn't bother me bc when am i on a black screen tilting the thing 90 degrees or more?

Apple great job with replacing my Ipad 2. Very happy customer right now!
 
VidPro said:
That looks pretty good. If if it goes away at the brightness level u like I'd keep it. Not only are there displays with crappy light bleed u may find yourself with less pixels you payed for.
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That's exactly what I was thinking. There is always the possibility of getting a replacement with more problems.
 
Mjmar said:
That's exactly what I was thinking. There is always the possibility of getting a replacement with more problems.
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Shouldn't have to settle for anything less that flawless. If I purchased a fridge that had a leak in the seal should I just settle for that? Or a tap that leaked a little? Or a car with leaking oil? Sould I just settle for a vacuum cleaner sucking at half the power?
 
I really hate this thread. I used my ipad 2 for almost a month and never noticed anything til I clicked on this thread. Now I have gone through 3 ipads and still have light bleeding. Did not bother me till I clicked this thread and started looking for it
 
This is just a question to people who are seeing these light bleeds, and yes mine has the problem at 100% brightness.

Do you actually use 100% brightness in regular usage. Having the screen that bright actually hurts my eyes. Right now I am in a dark room and 30% brightness is as bright as I am comfortable. So is this issue something that is actually bothering people, or is this just a case of knowing it is there.

I can't even notice it at below 75% or so, to me this is like sure my car would ride rough if I drove at over 100mph, but I don't do that so...

Just wondering what people's thoughts on this were.
 
^^@kupp
Actually, yes, I agree with you. I don't know about anyone else but when I'm in my bedroom at night or in dim-lit places with low lighting, having the iPad at 100% brightness just strains my eyes and feels very uncomfortable, and eventually i get aches in my eyes after a long period of using the device.

I keep my brightness at 50% at dark and almost always increase it to 100% at daytime. Brighter is better. :d

But this also means sacrificing battery life... My iPad so far has little to no bleed at all and this is my 3rd replacement
 
Kupp said:
This is just a question to people who are seeing these light bleeds, and yes mine has the problem at 100% brightness.

Do you actually use 100% brightness in regular usage. Having the screen that bright actually hurts my eyes. Right now I am in a dark room and 30% brightness is as bright as I am comfortable. So is this issue something that is actually bothering people, or is this just a case of knowing it is there.

I can't even notice it at below 75% or so, to me this is like sure my car would ride rough if I drove at over 100mph, but I don't do that so...

Just wondering what people's thoughts on this were.
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That depends on the car. :)

The iPads I've had except #4 the bleed could be seen at 25%

The mor of the story is LCD tech is crappy. There are only levels of mediocre.
 
So I've never really dealt with pixel issues. This pixel is ok when the unit is off for a bit. After a but if use the pixel glows like star in the night sky.
 
Kupp said:
This is just a question to people who are seeing these light bleeds, and yes mine has the problem at 100% brightness.

Do you actually use 100% brightness in regular usage. Having the screen that bright actually hurts my eyes. Right now I am in a dark room and 30% brightness is as bright as I am comfortable. So is this issue something that is actually bothering people, or is this just a case of knowing it is there.

I can't even notice it at below 75% or so, to me this is like sure my car would ride rough if I drove at over 100mph, but I don't do that so...

Just wondering what people's thoughts on this were.
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I have had 2 IP2s and with both I never even got around to adjusting the brightness. As a matter of fact, I had never even seen any "light bleed" topics at that point. I was an iPad newbie excited about portable netflix, then I saw it. Three distinct points of light when I started watching my movie. It was annoying, more like doing 35 mph and the steering wheel vibrating strong. Of course at that point I looked online to see if there were any issues documented. Of course there were. I returned it and the second one was worse right out the box with no brightness adjustment. I returned that one too and have since been content to enjoy the forums and wait till people start saying the IP2s they are getting are being delivered issue free, as they should have been in the first place. BTW I drive a big ol Expedition that should not be driven fast, therefore they had no reason to engineer it to. Last month I got a little heavy foot happy on the interstate on the way to the beach and hit 95 mph. To my surprise the ride and steering were as smooth as glass. Now THAT'S what I wish all my products that I spent my hard earned money were like.
 
Apple makes billions every month. They have tens of billions in cash on hand. It would be nice if they would start paying someone to do quality control at the factory, so we don't have to and we can stop pumping millions of tons of greenhouse gases needlessly into the atmosphere.
 
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