What's wrong with the Gamegear's display?

[HEX1GON]

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5412/gg001301.jpg

Is it the bad capacitors or is the screen dead on one side?

[hrahn]

looks like the contacts on one side are starting to go. Does it show all lines when you apply soft pressure to the edge of the display or the case?

[retro]

The contacts shouldn't be an issue on the Game Gear, given that it's just a rubber strip on the screen. Unless someone's been messing around, it shouldn't be an issue.

Looks like a screen problem - has it been dropped?

[Alchy]

Looks like a screen problemCouldn't help but laugh when I read that. I mean, I concur! ;)

[retro]

Couldn't help but laugh when I read that. I mean, I concur! ;)

Haha! I meant the actual screen, rather than a lead or component issue ;-)

[HEX1GON]

I don't know the history of the system or what's happened to it. It was on a site I was going to buy it from. Seeing that it's the screen it's self, I'd most likely pass on this.. Unless you can buy a screen from some where.

[Bad_Ad84]

Ive not looked at a gear game personally - however I have repaired a number of phones and other things over the years.


If it has a rubber strip as mentioned above that handles the connections from the PCB to the screen - they do wear out and break. I had to replace no end of them in phones around 99-2002 and they displayed similar looking symptoms to the ops picture.

[Jamtex]

They don't wear out, they just rot, as rubber does.

[Bad_Ad84]

I dont think the phones I used to repair would rot in 6 months. The screen had slight movement tho and likely moved while in someones pocket.

But definitely not rot.

8210/8850 were 2 models I remember it happening to. Probably 5110 and 6110 too

edit: link - http://www.bogpeople.com/nokia8210fix/