My PinePhone CE Manjaro (Convergence) was since day one, very carefully handled, never left in humid, hot or extra cold environment, never direct sunlight, I have never opened the case other than installing a SIM card and removing/re-inserting battery etc.. the device never fall out of my hand, never was left in the back pocket while sitting or not even the front pocket or a bag, nothing that can put any tension on the parts or the casing.. from day one only charged using an original Pine64 charger that was purchased directly from Pine64 plus only using the original cable that came with the device, the inlet for charging is going through a surge protector etc... the whole nine yards and more.
Starting from about a month ago, my screen have a complete column of pixels on the screen dead, a complete dead pixels line from the bottom to the top at a specific position...
Sure, the screen in theory can be replaced, a process that has some sort of instructions somewhere (forgot the link), and the replacement screen costs about $40 if I am not mistaken, the few who tried and successfully replaced their screens did not achieve it without a considerable amount of sweat and tears though...
but how about why such a lightly used device is having his screen go crap after such a small period of time? (my Pine brand new was received on Dec 2020, and was used very partially as a daily driver only starting from April 2021)
Is it a B-Class screen being installed? (which would make me very angry if it does) can we identify this on the hardware?
There is a huge difference between 2-3 pixels going dead, and a whole column from top to bottom going dead at once - which might hint that the screen part was either flawed in some way or was indeed a 2nd selection (or B-Ware type) part.
Starting from about a month ago, my screen have a complete column of pixels on the screen dead, a complete dead pixels line from the bottom to the top at a specific position...
Sure, the screen in theory can be replaced, a process that has some sort of instructions somewhere (forgot the link), and the replacement screen costs about $40 if I am not mistaken, the few who tried and successfully replaced their screens did not achieve it without a considerable amount of sweat and tears though...
but how about why such a lightly used device is having his screen go crap after such a small period of time? (my Pine brand new was received on Dec 2020, and was used very partially as a daily driver only starting from April 2021)
Is it a B-Class screen being installed? (which would make me very angry if it does) can we identify this on the hardware?
There is a huge difference between 2-3 pixels going dead, and a whole column from top to bottom going dead at once - which might hint that the screen part was either flawed in some way or was indeed a 2nd selection (or B-Ware type) part.
