Purple Tint of Death

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The Purple Tint of Death (PTOD) is a hardware condition affecting some Pandoras from batch 1. It manifests itself in the form of a purple haze or purple bands moving across the screen, often starting out at just certain hinge positions, but progressively getting worse.

For some examples of what it looks like, see this thread and this video.

PTOD is caused by poor LCD cables; because of this, OpenPandora switched to a new company in April 2011. The final ~1000 units of batch 1 and all following units will use the new LCD cables.[1]

Early symptoms of the problem may include very faint horizontal bands moving across the screen [2] and colour banding [3].

For a video of EvilDragon replacing faulty LCD cables, go here.

For details about sending your Pandora to be fixed, check this thread. The address to send your Pandora to is:

OpenPandora GmbH
Schäffbräustr. 11
85049 Ingolstadt
Germany

  • Purple bands

  • Purple haze

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