Gaming DS FULLY YELLOW TOUCHSCREEN PLZ HELP

[Thesolcity]

And this is why you don't smoke around electronics.

 

[Arya511]

all I'll fix for now is the screen being yellow! thanks everyone

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[Thesolcity]

all I'll fix for now is the screen being yellow! thanks everyone

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[Arya511]

all I'll fix for now is the screen being yellow! thanks everyone

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[Sicklyboy]

I'd honestly recommend looking at the guide we have here: http://gbatemp.net/topic/98240-ndsl-disassemblyreassembly-guide/

As long as you're patient and careful to not lose any parts and don't try to force something that doesn't want to go, you'll be fine to do it yourself, or if you have another friend who is technologically inclined, have them do it. Just need to order those parts I listed a few posts back.

 

[Wizerzak]

I'd replace the lower screen, 5 years is a lot considering the fragile DS Lite's nature

What? The DS Lites were SOLID. The only broken DS lite I've seen is from somebody who dropped it down a flight of stairs outside their house.

 

[Nathan Drake]

I'd replace the lower screen, 5 years is a lot considering the fragile DS Lite's nature

What? The DS Lites were SOLID. The only broken DS lite I've seen is from somebody who dropped it down a flight of stairs outside their house.

The only broken DS Lite I've seen is dozens. The first however long after the release, the Lite had a really shitty hinge. Most Lites become the victim of a cracked hinge at one time or another due to a rather imperfect design. You just had to open and close the unit too many times to reveal the problem. Usually, the hinge problem escalated pretty badly until the hinge or unit was replaced.

The Lites in the past couple of years, from what I read, have better hinges.

 

[Wizerzak]

I'd replace the lower screen, 5 years is a lot considering the fragile DS Lite's nature

What? The DS Lites were SOLID. The only broken DS lite I've seen is from somebody who dropped it down a flight of stairs outside their house.

The only broken DS Lite I've seen is dozens. The first however long after the release, the Lite had a really shitty hinge. Most Lites become the victim of a cracked hinge at one time or another due to a rather imperfect design. You just had to open and close the unit too many times to reveal the problem. Usually, the hinge problem escalated pretty badly until the hinge or unit was replaced.

The Lites in the past couple of years, from what I read, have better hinges.

Well it was certainly an improvement on the original DS; every single one of those I've seen has a completely broken hinge and is falling apart.

 

[Coto]

I'd replace the lower screen, 5 years is a lot considering the fragile DS Lite's nature

What? The DS Lites were SOLID. The only broken DS lite I've seen is from somebody who dropped it down a flight of stairs outside their house.

What? No. The DS Lite build is horrible. Is the most fragile DS ever built. Once you let it fall onto the floor, the hinge will break almost instantly. 2 of them I had suffered from that. And guess what's next: broken upper screen.

 

[Wizerzak]

Well, mine has never broken nor have any of my friends' DS Lites. And we've all dropped them sometime or other. Yet about 7 of them also have original DS' that are broken horribly.

 

[Sicklyboy]

I had 3 Lites. All 3 had a cracked hinge. My brother's had a cracked hinge. I ordered a replacement shell for mine, hinge cracked.

L+R buttons are wearing out on mine.

Resistive layer was horribly bad, replacement one fixed it.

 

[Nathan Drake]

I'd replace the lower screen, 5 years is a lot considering the fragile DS Lite's nature

What? The DS Lites were SOLID. The only broken DS lite I've seen is from somebody who dropped it down a flight of stairs outside their house.

The only broken DS Lite I've seen is dozens. The first however long after the release, the Lite had a really shitty hinge. Most Lites become the victim of a cracked hinge at one time or another due to a rather imperfect design. You just had to open and close the unit too many times to reveal the problem. Usually, the hinge problem escalated pretty badly until the hinge or unit was replaced.

The Lites in the past couple of years, from what I read, have better hinges.

Well it was certainly an improvement on the original DS; every single one of those I've seen has a completely broken hinge and is falling apart.

What? Are you kidding me? I had my launch DS up until last December, and the hinge NEVER broke. That thing got hundreds of hours of playtime too. What ultimately did it in was me being overly aggressive, and breaking the top screen. You really have to try to break the DS Phat hinge. If you do break it, you were doing something horribly wrong. By the by, my DS Phat took more than a small handful of spills. Funnily enough, it was never directly my fault, but none the less.

The short version: your friends were obviously overly aggressive with their DS Phat models, overestimating their ability. The Lite feels more fragile, so of course, you would naturally be more careful with it. It's human nature to handle something obviously more fragile with care. Oh, and I'm guessing that if they had a Phat at all, they got it before their Lite. Generally, once you break the fuck out of something, you're more careful the second time around.

 

[Coto]

See? Tempers have suffered the same DS lite fiasco as me =P

 

[Click This]

I had a black launch DS that has been repeatedly dropped and manhandled. It was only done in recently when I broke the screen replacing the very scratched up shell.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Since you live in the USA, if youlive near a Play-N-Trade or something similar you could bring it in for a quote. Or you just get someone on the Temp with experience doing maintenance on NDSLs to help you out.

 

[Arya511]

besides this, my ds touchscreen's touch responding is kinda awkward you know! :S it taps one place about one thousand times in one minute when i just hold it down on a place ._. I'm not going to change the touchscreen yet! because i've seen it costs like $40 so I think it's best left alone for now .-. darn! my ds is old like 5 years so i guess this should happen sometime...

whaaa???? :S my ds's touchscreens problem about responding magicly fixed today well it's still yellow but i can use the touchscreen without any problem ._. awkward..no?

 

[Arya511]

well my ds did have some other problems with the L+R buttons but that magicly fixed (like always) and the d-pad buttons wouldn't respond well so i just put a little stick under my d-pad hoping for that fixing the problem...and it did ._. tbh i guess my ds has lasted good for 5/5 years

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

well my ds did have some other problems with the L+R buttons but that magicly fixed (like always) and the d-pad buttons wouldn't respond well so i just put a little stick under my d-pad hoping for that fixing the problem...and it did ._. tbh i guess my ds has lasted good for 5/5 years

I have a launch day DS and DS Lite that works perfectly till today. No cracked hinges, no broken shoulder buttons or any of that annoyances (Except the old clicky/ soft shoulder button issues early DS Lites had)

But with tech this old, you should be mentally prepared for them to just die, any time, any where and without reason. It's like the poor DS is suffering a heart attack. Always be open in spending money to get a replacement (or risking expensive repair costs) with tech older than 5 years I always say.

Anyways, sounds like your problem may just be momentarily solved. It will act up again if you don't replace the screen/ Fix up the ribbon cable connection/ Let the pros handle it. Hope it lasts as long as it can though

 

[Arya511]

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