:warning: WARNING :warning: this will void any warranty you may have whether or not it works. It involves fire and heating up electronics , so it may in fact damage your screen and make things worse . Be careful, don’t burn yourself, and also don’t burn down your house, street, neighbourhood, town, …

@ElKrasso once described a similarly daring procedure (involving the core module though), but using a normal kitchen oven. [image] Noisy coloured pixels on my Fairphone 2 Fairphone 2 Edit by @moderators : warning This post contains instructions that can cause severe harm t…

Weak sauce! I’d use a flamethrower but I believe they’re illegal.

[image] robbert.f: Read at your own risk! Please turn off your computer now and never turn it back on! Step away from the forum with your hands where I can see them! Well done, congrats! :ok_hand: I like this part best…:rofl:

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Well, reading your post, my first reaction was: how many first generation FP2 displays have an unresponsive touchscreen? It seems that there are a lot, and the problems are confirmed by the existence of a second generation of display. It really seems that the the first generation displays were fault…

[image] chrisse: It seems that there are a lot, and the problems are confirmed by the existence of a second generation of display. No, they aren’t confirmed that way, at least not this obviously. According to Fairphone the new display generation became necessary because of supply chain troub…

Yes, it may be a shortcut, that’s why I asked some questions at the end of the message to have your feeling about the extent of the issue with second generation displays. My feeling (but only a feeling) was that the issue affects mostly first generation display because (but I might be wrong) the num…

Hi @robbert.f . Sounds like a good method :slight_smile:. I have an issue with an FP1 screen and it sounds similar. What temperature do you think I need to heat the screen to? Could I try and oven at say 50 degC? I’ve attached the #touchscreentest for my FP1. There are a couple of areas that don’t …

Looks like the same issue, yes, so there’s a chance this method will fix the problem. Difficult to say the temperature at which I heated my screens… so hot that it was painful to touch them for longer than a second or so, while taking care to heat no part of the screen much more than that. I’m goin…

Repairing an unresponsive touchscreen - the fire fix (⚠ slightly dangerous, will void your warranty)

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@ElKrasso once described a similarly daring procedure (involving the core module though), but using a normal kitchen oven.