Screen dying already?

[calinb]

Are there any updates on this? Has the cause of this problem been discovered, and are new devices at least less likely to contain the fault? I'm considering ordering soon and wanted to ask again before deciding.

I regret the reply : 'nothing'.

I would like to have an explication, to know the cause, to have the certainty that it is possible to order a new screen that is not a faulty screen.

I wish I could reply favorably, but all I did was roll the dice on a new replacement screen. Like Winford, I too have a Manjaro CE from the first batch. As I mentioned, the replacement screen that I received from the Pine Store appears to be an older revision of the screen.

I will certainly report any signs of a defect in the new screen back to this thread immediately, but it took something like eight months before the defect started to appear in my original screen.

Now that power management is working much better than during my early days of Pinephone ownership, my phone runs much cooler on the average and it never gets scary hot like it did in the early days. Heat is nearly always used in electrical and electronic component life tests to accelerate the degradation of the components and then the results are correlated back to the specified operating ranges.

Now that our phones are running cooler, it might take longer for the problem to appear, even if the replacements (old rev. screens) are just as vulnerable to the problem as the screens that shipped with our phones.

Yes. An explanation from Pine64, including some details about Pine's solutions or mitigations would be nice!