By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist The screen is completely white. Not flickering. Not cracked. Not black. Just a solid, featureless white, like someone filled the entire display with a blank canvas and left it…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist Your phone was fine yesterday. You let it update overnight. You picked it up this morning and the screen is flickering. That’s a specific kind of frustrating, because you…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist You’re reading something. The screen just dims on its own. You haven’t touched the brightness. You haven’t changed any settings. It just decided on its own to get darker.…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist This question gets asked wrong almost every time. People phrase it as “which technology is better” and the answer to that question depends entirely on what you mean by…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist Most people have never experienced a properly calibrated touchscreen not because well-calibrated screens are rare, but because nobody has ever told them what to look for. A properly calibrated…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist Touch unresponsiveness is one of the most disorienting phone failures to troubleshoot because there’s no visual artifact to examine. The screen looks perfectly fine. The display is on. Everything…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist It appears without warning. A single vertical line almost always green, occasionally pink or white, running from the top of your screen to the bottom in a perfectly straight,…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist If you’re reading this guide, you’ve already noticed it, a ghost of something that used to be there. A navigation bar outline. A status indicator. A keyboard shadow. The…
