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Holy CRAP! I figured out how to fix my light leakage problem!

post #1 of 37
4/21/05 at 3:38am
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In my other thread I mentioned a big blob on the right side of my screen. I don't know why, but it suddenly occurred to me to press on the screen. Did it while on a black screen. Presto!!! Where my finger was, all of sudden the screen was black and didn't turn blotchy again! I then took one of those soft screen cloths and lightly pressing down, I wiped across the entire area. Like an eraser, it just took it out! The screen still wasn't totally perfect, but after dialing the backlighting back by one notch and then fiddling with the gamma/contrast/brightness settings, it's PLENTY satisfactory for me now.



If this fixes the problem for you, you can just kiss my feet.

NOTE: You do NOT need to press hard. Like I said below, just wipe it with a little pressure, like you're smoothing out your bedsheets.
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post #2 of 37
4/21/05 at 3:51am
It's like those old "Magna Doodle" boards!! You know, where you use the magnetic pen to draw pictures, pulling up the iron shreds to the surface? Then, you drag that lever across the board to make it all nice again!!
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post #3 of 37
4/21/05 at 4:45am
what do you mean by "dialing the backlighting back by one notch?"
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post #4 of 37
4/21/05 at 4:55am
LOL you probably damaged your lcd. Shut it off, let it sit for awhile and I bet you will see big white areas where you pressed down to get "rid" of the leakage. I know what you're talking about b/c I tried this with an older LCD :P
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post #5 of 37
4/21/05 at 4:57am
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Originally Posted by jpwoof
what do you mean by "dialing the backlighting back by one notch?"
lowering the brightness 1 level...
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post #6 of 37
4/21/05 at 4:58am
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Of course I didn't damage the LCD. I didn't MASH down on it. I just gently pressed it. Like smooth out one's bedsheets. I did shut it off. It works just fine. If you don't want to believe me, that's up to you. It worked. Period.
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post #7 of 37
4/21/05 at 5:21am
Ok if you say so.
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post #8 of 37
4/21/05 at 5:52am
YAY FOR FLUX!!!!!

Like I said. . . .memories of MAGNA DOODLE!!!
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post #9 of 37
4/21/05 at 8:34am
flux, I think you're straying away from the scientific approach you seemed to be taking before.
Telling people that pressing on thier LCDs and then lowering the backlight intensity is not lending credibility to your "LCD seal baking" theory on the cause of light leakage.
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post #10 of 37
4/21/05 at 8:57am
He isn't talking about adding alot of pressure, just a small amount, less than if you were wiping crumbs off a table.
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post #11 of 37
4/21/05 at 11:16am
Have you guys tried leaving your laptop on for a long period of time on screen saver mode? it seems to be helping on mine.
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post #12 of 37
4/21/05 at 12:35pm
doesn't work for me
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post #13 of 37
4/21/05 at 12:56pm
When I first got my laptop, I noticed horrible light leakage. So, I left my screen on for 4 days straight. I only see a small sliver of light at the bottom, now.

Still have a dead pixel in the middle of the screen, though. Anyone figure out how to fix a dead pixel, let me know. Otherwise, a new screen I will have.
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post #14 of 37
4/21/05 at 1:03pm
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Originally Posted by Stomper
When I first got my laptop, I noticed horrible light leakage. So, I left my screen on for 4 days straight. I only see a small sliver of light at the bottom, now.

Still have a dead pixel in the middle of the screen, though. Anyone figure out how to fix a dead pixel, let me know. Otherwise, a new screen I will have.

Here's how I fixed my dead pixel. I complained to Dell and they sending a technician to replace the screen because I threaten to return it.
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post #15 of 37
4/21/05 at 1:11pm
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Originally Posted by Gold Beater
flux, I think you're straying away from the scientific approach you seemed to be taking before.
Telling people that pressing on thier LCDs and then lowering the backlight intensity is not lending credibility to your "LCD seal baking" theory on the cause of light leakage.
There appears to be two different kinds of light leakage. The kind that I was seeing people describing before light leakage from along the bottom edge. I do have a little bit of that, but definitely bearable. The other kind does appear to be light leakage from behind the screen itself. I wasn't able to see this until I just got my notebook yesterday. Not sure what this is from other than the polar film layers not being entirely aligned or completely flush against each other, maybe? Anyhow, it works. So whatever you want to believe about my credibility go ahead.
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post #16 of 37
4/21/05 at 1:15pm
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Originally Posted by Stomper
When I first got my laptop, I noticed horrible light leakage. So, I left my screen on for 4 days straight. I only see a small sliver of light at the bottom, now.

Still have a dead pixel in the middle of the screen, though. Anyone figure out how to fix a dead pixel, let me know. Otherwise, a new screen I will have.
The light leakage on my screen is sometimes bad and sometimes non-existant. It seems to vary a lot and I have no idea why. It just chooses to be different sometimes when I start the system up even if it's been sitting cold for a while.
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post #17 of 37
4/21/05 at 2:54pm
I think a couple of you are forgetting that having a black screen with light leakage to the left and right side is normal. Those of you with the XPS2, you do know that the LED lights "bleed" through on a black screen right? Specifically on the left and right sides.
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post #18 of 37
4/21/05 at 6:54pm
The title of this thread is completely misleading. This is not a "light leakage" problem at all. If the liquid is thin due to pressure from the back (even from a piece of tape, foil or wire pushing on the glass) the result will be that more backlight is allowed through where the liquid is thin.
Sometimes "massaging" will even fix a stuck pixel, or other screen "anomoles".
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post #19 of 37
4/21/05 at 7:15pm
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Originally Posted by Gold Beater
The title of this thread is completely misleading. This is not a "light leakage" problem at all. If the liquid is thin due to pressure from the back (even from a piece of tape, foil or wire pushing on the glass) the result will be that more backlight is allowed through where the liquid is thin.
Sometimes "massaging" will even fix a stuck pixel, or other screen "anomoles".
If the backlight gets through where the liquid is thin, is that NOT light leaking out? I already said that there seems to be different kinds of light leakage. In my title, I clearly said I fixed "MY" light leakage issue. There may have been others who, like me, assumed that their particular light leakage problem couldn't be fixed and called Dell right away for a return. I'm merely offering a potential solution.

Give it a rest Gold Beater. I don't know what you have against me, but if you don't like my solution, then just ignore my thread instead of coming in here just to whine about how I lack credibility and how I'm misleading people. Sorry for being such a waste of YOUR time.
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post #20 of 37
4/22/05 at 1:09am
Ehh-ehh. You shouldn't be a bonehead, and then get into it with me. I call em like I see em.
You used a "hot topic" to get people to read your idiotic post, and what's your solution?...Press on the screen. I called you on it, and then you start talking about a very specific situation that has NOTHING TO DO with the original "hot topic" to begin with.
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Originally Posted by flux73
There appears to be two different kinds of light leakage.
Whaoooh! Hold the presses! flux73 has discovered a NEW kind of light leakage!
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The kind that I was seeing people describing before light leakage from along the bottom edge. I do have a little bit of that, but definitely bearable.
Righhhhht, and that's the kind that everyone - except you- has been talking about on this forum?
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The other kind does appear to be light leakage from behind the screen itself. I wasn't able to see this until I just got my notebook yesterday.
Okay. I guess I can't dispute your discovery of a whole other kind of light leakage, right? Though this is the first time I recall reading about it.
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Not sure what this is from other than the polar film layers not being entirely aligned or completely flush against each other, maybe? Anyhow, it works.
"Anyhow, it works." doesn't quite cut it with my 1800 dollar machine, you know what I mean? "Just squish it a little. Who knows why it works, but trust me."
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So whatever you want to believe about my credibility go ahead.
You baited people that have a light leakage problem that you are very familiar with, according to your posts in a thread specifically about it, into reading this whacky quick-fix of a very specific problem YOU are having, without differentiating between the two different types of leakage, and with little explaination of how or why it should work.
Obviously you intended this to be read by those people because according to you, if this works we should "kiss your feet". (We should kiss your feet for fixing YOUR OWN PROBLEM? )
So which is it? Did you just now during this post become totally and utterly confused as to which light leakage problem everyone else is having, despite all the comparison photos of people's screens, or have you been completely confused all along?
I guess I'm just bent because I expected more from a thread with this title authored by you when before (in the other thread) you really seemed to understand the problem well enough to offer a possible theory as to why the light leakage issue happens, as well as why it is apparently getting better for some over time, but I found only silliness inside.
There's no "whining". You're a bonehead, and I simply didn't realize it before, that's all.
As to your "credibility", well I dunno. I didn't question it, but you've mentioned it twice now.
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