[Cuber]

So today, I finally got my triwing screw driver through so it was time to swap my DS lite's body with one I bought online... because the hinge on my old body snapped.

So I suppose it went well, until the stop screen was just a real pain for me (The sticky bit.. wanting to make sure no dust got in... ect..) So were the shoulder buttons (Man I hate springs.)

Anyway... after I finally got it all in, time to turn it on.. and.. the bottom screen flashes.. it turns off.. Looked on google to see anything about it online, seems it's a top screen issue.. so I try resetting the cable.. same thing..

So I do something I wish I never did and got my sisters DS and tried out her top screen just to be sure.. er, same thing? I didn't take hers as far apart as my own, I just took it far enough to be able to see if it comes on.. I put it back in hers and got the same thing I was getting on mine.

After mass panic I calmed down and tried again.. it turned on! So I did it all up.. and found, the top screens blank? Oh crap...
I then did mine up and.. the top screens, well it has a few funny colours but slowly goes more grey..
They both have sound... So, I'm probably going to take it to a professional now.. But please, if anyone has any ideas..



If I have to replace the screens, I'd first love to know what I might of done to cause this twice so that I don't do it a 3rd or 4th time.

[Cuber]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk3OQMCjMuM

Now I just found this issue on the blue one, if I press on the left corner..

[l_oliveira]

<necropost mode on>

It breaks like that because you fold it too much.
The connection from the screen to the main board is made by an plastic flat cable with flat copper tracks, think as a leaf of paper. If it get folded too many times the following things might happen:

The copper track inside the plastic breaks cutting electrical connection and that results on wrong colors, varying on which line of the flatcable got cut.

The plastic isolation of the cable might get corroded, allowing the copper tracks to touch the little metal pipe that holds the top half of the DS (which allows the flatcable to go to the top part without being exposed externally and is part of the folding mechanism) causing short circuit.

If the DS detects that the top or the bottom screen backlight did not light up it will turn off after a second or two of being turned on.

I hope this post was instructive