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From: s25bt@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Kong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: lcd problem?
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Date: 8 Nov 90 00:39:17 GMT
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Reply-To: s25bt@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Kong)
Organization: Statistics Dept., U. C. Berkeley
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Several posts back, someone mentioned about a replacement 48SX
displaying weird lcd behavior which can be likened to what
you see when you turn off the tv.  Well, my newly bought 48SX
showed the same type of problem.  I was fiddling with the on-D
<- sequence, when suddenly, when I pressed the 8 key, zap!  The
screen was flooded with on pixels which slowly disappeared, leaving
the screen blank.  I had to do a on-C to get back, but once I got
back, everything was working normally.  Further experiments indicate
that there's nothing special about 8, but the lcd blanking was
limited to on-D <- sequence followed by keys which changed the
address display.  However, a few minutes later, when I repeated
the on-D <- sequence, no ununsual lcd behavior showed up.  Has
anybody else's 48SX displayed this screen blanking effect?  I'd
hate to see this happen in the middle of an exam!

Keith Kong