faulty pixels

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I got my SGS a couple of weeks ago. Haven't used it much yet. Anyways, I left if off the last three days and turned it on today and i notice that there is a continuous vertical line of faulty pixels! It is quite centrally located. I have just flashed it with the new fw last week, other than that I haven't done any modifications.

Is that an hardware or software error? How could that have happened? Any suggestions what I could do?

Regards

edit: can't post a pic since the only digicam I got atm is the one on the Galaxy...
edit2: sorry, this slipped into the wrong section, wanted to post it to General.

Originally Posted by iv4nhoe

I got my SGS a couple of weeks ago. Haven't used it much yet. Anyways, I left if off the last three days and turned it on today and i notice that there is a continuous vertical line of faulty pixels! It is quite centrally located. I have just flashed it with the new fw last week, other than that I haven't done any modifications.

Is that an hardware or software error? How could that have happened? Any suggestions what I could do?

Regards

edit: can't post a pic since the only digicam I got atm is the one on the Galaxy...
edit2: sorry, this slipped into the wrong section, wanted to post it to General.

it sounds like a hardware problem, what you could do is factory reset the device and see what happens, then you can be quite certain its not a software problem.

For me it doesn't sound like a ROM issue, but others can answer that better than me.

Originally Posted by FrezoreR

(...)For me it doesn't sound like a ROM issue, but others can answer that better than me.

But it could be... I'd try to restore it to stock as much as possible, to see if the problem persists, and obviously also to be able to return it in conditions that won't void the warranty.

Originally Posted by Rizlo

But it could be... I'd try to restore it to stock as much as possible, to see if the problem persists, and obviously also to be able to return it in conditions that won't void the warranty.

That's the thing... the phone was branded. Tried a factory reset but it didn't help. I haven't found the providers fw online, as expected. If I will return it I will go there with my phone turned on and hope they won't notice. I got ahold of the original fw-info, I guess if I would be able to re-flash it it won't help me though... damn it