Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Bob Larter wrote:
Barry Watzman wrote:
The most common cause of lines or bands in an LCD display is not blown
driver chips, it is failed ribbon cable connections between the board
with the driver chips going to the actual LCD glass. The bonding of the
ribbon cable to the glass itself fails.
It amounts to the same thing, & both are equally unfixable.


They are routinely repaired by places that refurbish large numbers of
cell phones. They replace defective or damaged LCD, and reuse the
cable.

It's a bit different for a full size screen. ;^)

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