Screen dying already?

[marcih]

In other words, it's highly advisable that everyone configures more restrictive CPU throttling on their PinePhones, and reports back their experience (CPU temperature, how hot the screen feels to the touch, is there a noticeable slowdown, etc.) with different values for the CPU throttling parameters.  Based on the reports, changes will be made in the Linux kernel tree maintained by Ondrej, so the more restrictive CPU throttling eventually becomes the default.

I've started by setting the thermal trip points on my PinePhone (Manjaro Phosh, stable branch) to 45°C, 60°C and 75°C respectively.

Reason for the upper limit being so low is that I did once accidentally reach it by stupidly putting some clothes on top my phone, which was on the charger and had a compile job running; needless to say, the whole phone was searing-hot at only 75°C, which couldn't have been healthy for it. I must add that this was around Christmas time and the delamination didn't start until April.

The only adjustment I felt like I had to make was bumping up the "passive" point up to 50°C because I experienced stutters when watching 720p videos YouTube videos using FreeTube that weren't present before and (seem to) have gone again after the bump. Even at 50°C the phone still doesn't feel too hot, so I think it's okay.

It's possible that these are bad apples, considering the low amount of reports of similar issues. Replacement screens can be bought under https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-5-9...ch-screen/ if you want to spare Pine some money, if not you can open a ticket under sales@ in case of a fault already existing insidiously.

Has anyone gotten a word on whether it's a defect and whether they'd be willing to ship a replacement screen to those affected? I ask this because I already have quite the shopping list for the PINE store and they're all currently in stock (doesn't happen often) and I wouldn't want to order a replacement screen just to find out afterwards that they would've given me a one.