White stripes on 3.5 screen. Broken?

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White stripes on 3.5 screen. Broken?

Post by O_gg_e » Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:22 pm

I did the 5v mod to the controllerboard as suggested. Then I hooked it up to the raspberry zero for a test drive. It starts, but have four white lines across the top of the screen. Have I messed up or is the screen broken? The screen is from Gearbest..

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Re: White stripes on 3.5 screen. Broken?

Post by Helder » Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:25 pm

O_gg_e wrote:I did the 5v mod to the controllerboard as suggested. Then I hooked it up to the raspberry zero for a test drive. It starts, but have four white lines across the top of the screen. Have I messed up or is the screen broken? The screen is from Gearbest..
Hard to say without pictures showing your soldering and did the screen not have those lines before the mod? Was the screen tested before the mod?
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Re: White stripes on 3.5 screen. Broken?

Post by O_gg_e » Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:36 pm

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I didn't test the screen befor unfortunately. Rookie mistake I guess :roll:

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Re: White stripes on 3.5 screen. Broken?

Post by O_gg_e » Wed Mar 08, 2017 2:06 pm

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Not the the best pictures. But hopefully you can see my problem.

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Re: White stripes on 3.5 screen. Broken?

Post by TimBer » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:28 am

You connected both white and yellow wires?

You only need to connect 1, so or yellow, or white. The driver board has two input channels....being 1 white, one yellow.
Disconnect one from the pi (it is not connected at all), in your case I would disconnect the yellow wire.

Not sure if it will fix your problem......I would think the screen or the driver board has a problem.

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Re: White stripes on 3.5 screen. Broken?

Post by O_gg_e » Fri Mar 10, 2017 4:46 am

Both the wires are connected. I'll gonna try desoldering one of the wires as soon as I get back from work. See if it makes any difference.
Thank you! I really appreciate your help.

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Re: White stripes on 3.5 screen. Broken?

Post by Helder » Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:43 pm

O_gg_e wrote:Both the wires are connected. I'll gonna try desoldering one of the wires as soon as I get back from work. See if it makes any difference.
Thank you! I really appreciate your help.
Was that mod in the wiki? Often it's been a wire going to the 8pin chip and not a Diode.
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Re: White stripes on 3.5 screen. Broken?

Post by dadi4168 » Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:17 pm

I had the same lines on my 5 inch display, except vertical, and I needed to add settings to the config file on boot.

Something like:

hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=1
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_cvt 320 240 60 6 0 0 0

Found this on Amazon for BW screens:

framebuffer_width=320
framebuffer_height=240
overscan_top=-16
overscan_bottom=-32
overscan_left=0
overscan_right=-16
sdtv_mode=2

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Re: White stripes on 3.5 screen. Broken?

Post by O_gg_e » Sat Mar 11, 2017 4:50 am

I tried desoldering the white and the yellow wire.

No yellow wire: same as before
No white: no picture at all

Helder:
I didn't find my layout in the wiki. But I found this in the forum.
http://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2247

dadi4168:
Interesting! I'm going to try that. See if it makes any difference. Thank you!

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