PCs & Mobiles Forum - LCD screen problem - fixable? - Page 1

I've had a Nokia 5800 for about 3 or 4 years now. It does everything I want it to, and I'm quite happy with it, so I wasn't planning to replace it until it went pop.

Got up yesterday, checked my phone, and there are about 20 multicoloured horizontal lines going straight through the middle of the screen and about 10 black vertical lines coming down to the bottom of the screen from them. I have no idea what has caused it. I didn't do anything different with the phone on Saturday than I have every other day I've owned it. It gets transferred from my pocket to my handbag depending on what I'm wearing, and apart from the odd tissue, it doesn't get stuffed in with anything else.

A couple of weeks ago I was in a  phone repair shop in Ashford, and asked how much a replacement screen would be as I had noticed a couple of scratch marks on it, nothing serious. They checked the phone and said it would be about £25 - they called it some snazzy name that ended in Interface, I think. I asked if that meant a new screen, and they said yes.

So this new problem, which looks like an LCD problem to me, would it be cured by the same screen change, or is it a different layer?

Does anyone know what would be entailed, and whether it would be significantly more expensive or whether it is as straightforward as changing screens?

Obviously, I've tried switching it on and off, and changing themes etc, but so far nothing has made any changed, for better or for worse. I won't get into Ashford until this coming Friday, so I've got to live with it until then.

Thanks for any advice.

This item was edited on Monday, 16th January 2012, 07:24