PSP stuck pixel fixer?
posted Jun 13th 2005 7:30AM
To be honest with you, we're a little bit skeptical about this one, but apparently some folks are reporting success
with fixing the dead stuck pixels on their
PSPs using this method (some are reporting failures, too, so obviously YMMV). It's a video file derived from a DVD
Best Buy gives their customers to correct dead pixels on LCD TVs by flashing red, green and blue over and over again —
so theoretically this is supposed to work anywhere you might be afflicted with a stuck pixel. It runs on all
PSP firmware versions, and the advice is to let
it go for several hours or more, periodically checking with the white and black test screens to see if the stuck pixels
have come unstuck. Good luck, and let us know the results of your voodoo.
[Thanks, Ghazi]
P.S. It's worth mentioning that epileptics might want to give this flashing light trick a pass, mmkay? [Thanks, Justin and Large Juan]
bah. i ran it for 29 hours. no result, still the same 8 dead pixels at the same places. but it was worth trying anyways [:
It Only Works for stuck pixels not dead ones!
I tried this yesteday, let it run all night, i had 6 dead pixels, and im pretty sure its got rid of 4 of them, but there are still 2 left, which i dont think it will remove as welsh_elmo said, it probably only fixes stuck ones, not dead ones. Give it a shot, it mght just work
I had to run it 3 times looped, and it worked. It fixed all of my stuck pixles, but i still have 2 dead pixles, which was expected. All i need now is to fix the fing scratches.
is this video available to download for a standard (pc) lcd?
Where can I find this video file? Can it be run on an Apple LCD to fix stuck pixels?
Re: #5 - The link on the site points to an MP4. Simply grab hold of an MP4 player (e.g. QuickTime) to play it. No guarantees it'll work on your PC though.
I've had success with fixing stuck pixels on my IBM Thinkpad by simply switching down to 16bit colour and then switching back up to 32bit. Your results may vary.
Ghazi sent this in? He's a clown.
I ran it overnight, on my PSP that had a pixel that was stuck on green.
Worked like a charm. Outstanding little trick.
I've heard of another trick for fixing stuck/dead pixels before, and that was to gently press the screen at the location of the stuck/dead pixel. I've tried it before on an old Thinkpad and it worked, though YMMV.
This wouldn't be an issue if Sony would inprove their quality control.
Perhaps they could run this video on all screens on their assembly line.
All in all though, there isn't an excuse for dumping so many dead-pixels on the market. Nor is there an excuse for accepting it.
I agree with Eran, no product of any sort should ever have ANY dead or stuck pixels :) Now if only the economics of reality would make this possible.
Is a white pixel stuck or dead? Thank you.
Answering #12:
A pixel that is always 'on' i.e. always some color while the system is powered up, is "stuck". A pixel that remains black, no matter what, is "dead". The former can apparently be fixed using this video (although I'm unclear as to how, at this point) while the latter is a permanent problem.
bt,
theoritically it should work on all lcds.
In reply to #10 that only works if nothins is actually protection the LCD i think the PSP has a plastic coating over teh screen so that wouldnt work
An epilepsy warning would be nice. I nearly swallowed my tongue, dude.
What causes pixels to get "stuck"? How does this lead to them getting unstuck? Just curious.
#10, nice cheap shot even though this has nothing to do with sony's QC. it's just the nature of LCDs.
#11, nice cheap shot even though this has nothing to do with sony's QC. it's just the nature of LCDs.
I have 3 stuck white pixels. I've now run this video more than 24 hours. No luck. I heard white is the hardest to un-stick. EB won't exchange my PSP either - they say it has to have more than 6 *dead* pixels. Stuck pixels don't count.
i have one pixel on my ibm thinkpad that ist neither stuck nor dead. It just got the wrong color. the color actually changes with the color it is supposed to display. What kinda pixel's that?
quicke: A stupid pixel? ;-)
epilepsy warning? how about, and I quote:
"flashing red, green and blue over and over again"
in the future, just translate that into
"*** EPILEPSY WARNING ***"
Quickie: that's a rebel pixel, also known as an insurgent. The only way to 'fix' an insurgent pixel is to terrorize all the other pixels until it comes around to our way of thinking.
your moms a stupid pixel
I got a dell 24 inch wide screen. It has one stuck pixel on the bottom on the screen, I can barely see it, but I want to try running it on my screen to see if it works. My screen is gonna light up like a disco ball...:
#11 Sony don't make the screens, Sharp and Samsung do. They are two of the largest manufacturers of LCD screens in the world (+ Hitachi). LCD pixel errors are a known drawback for the industry, and while we all hate them, there is an excuse for the dead pixels; the screens may test fine at the factory but die in transit etc. And the excuse for accepting it? Because the benefits of LCD tech outweigh those downsides. Perfect LCD's may be a reasonable expectation in 10 - 20 years time, but I for one am not willing to wait for that long for a PSP. (Although I live in UK so maybe I'll have to)
I had a psp with 2 stuck pixals and i exchanged it from sony and now i have 12 stuck pixals. where do u get that file and from and how would i get it on my psp. really bumed out.
HeLp NeEdEd ! ThAnX
I had a psp with 2 stuck pixals and i exchanged it from sony and now i have 12 stuck pixals. where do u get that file and from and how would i get it on my psp. really bumed out.
HeLp NeEdEd ! ThAnX
Ghazi wrote this???LOL, the guy is a complete and utter clown, I would not rust anything he writes.
Yeah got this off psp-vault a few days ago, got rid of my 2 stuck pixels... keep it on my psp to give people i see with psps (yes, for us in austin, tx i actually see people with psps...)
I saw on another forum there's a flash version avaliable, here it is. http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/rgb.php
I've got 1 dead pixel almost at the center of my screen, so annoying, I'm gonna try leaving this on overnight. I doubt it'll work, but if i get more dead pixels from this, hopefully then I can get it warrantied. Would everyone mind posting how long they left this thing on for?
Ran this for 11 hours and my 1 stuck pixel remains :(
OMFG!!!!!! i gave me 3 more dead pixels!
i had 3 now i have 6...WTF?!?!?!
My PSP has no problems what-so-ever. Why does everyone else seem to have so many problems with their PSPs??
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I have two white pixels that i can only see when their is a black screen, are they stuck pixels or dead pixels??
#'s 20, 21, 29:
Although it is true that dead or stuck pixels are a real problem for LCD displays in general, there is absolutely no excuse for the shear volume of defective merchandise released by Sony in the form of the PSP. Never mind who is actually supplying the screens themselves. I personally experienced six consecutive defective PSP's inside of a week (four in the space of an hour), all at the same retail store. To me, it is fair to say that the hardware offering here is unsatisfactory.
Where do you get this video which fixes the pixel problem? I can't find it.
I had a psp shipped over from china, seemed to have 11 white pixels, only show up when the screen is black or watching movies in wide screen. This really P****D me off. Now 3 days later, i have come to terms with it. All in all I can live with it, just means I will have to buy a UK one in September. Why have one when you can have two.
Sony has messed up big time on these LCD screens. I recently bought my psp from Walmart, when I opened it i realized it had 5 Dead pixels therefore I returned it to walmart. Once I got there I decided to get an exchange and I told the lady I was going to open it and test it before I took the PSP home, She agreed. I opened the new PSP and there were 7 dead pixels, we opened another one there were even more, we opened another and there was a huge scratch on the screen. I don't know what Sony is doing but they better get their act together soon. There are many loyal Playstation fans but they shouldn't take advantage of this and sell faulty products. The whole PSP experience is based on the huge 16:9 ratio screen.... and If the screen itself is defective it really deteriorates the experience on the psp. I know 1 or 2 dead pixels may not seem like a lot but it is noticable and shouldn't be seen as being normal. Sony is currently taking a stringent stance on the LCD dead pixel case,why? no one knows. Anyway to conclude the story after testing about 8 !!!!!!!!!!!! PSP I decided to get a refund until I can somehow, somewhere find a perfect PSP. I will not pay $400(CAN) to get a faulty system with a screen which does not work. Sony DO SOMETHING SOON. I'm out PEACE.
Sony has messed up big time on these LCD screens. I recently bought my psp from Walmart, when I opened it i realized it had 5 Dead pixels therefore I returned it to walmart. Once I got there I decided to get an exchange and I told the lady I was going to open it and test it before I took the PSP home, She agreed. I opened the new PSP and there were 7 dead pixels, we opened another one there were even more, we opened another and there was a huge scratch on the screen. I don't know what Sony is doing but they better get their act together soon. There are many loyal Playstation fans but they shouldn't take advantage of this and sell faulty products. The whole PSP experience is based on the huge 16:9 ratio screen.... and If the screen itself is defective it really deteriorates the experience on the psp. I know 1 or 2 dead pixels may not seem like a lot but it is noticable and shouldn't be seen as being normal. Sony is currently taking a stringent stance on the LCD dead pixel case,why? no one knows. Anyway to conclude the story after testing about 8 !!!!!!!!!!!! PSP I decided to get a refund until I can somehow, somewhere find a perfect PSP. I will not pay $400(CAN) to get a faulty system with a screen which does not work. Sony DO SOMETHING SOON. I'm out PEACE.
I just started running it. I have 6 stuck pixels. I will post any results.
You all should not be bashing Sony or any other companies for that matter for stuck/dead pixels. 1/100th of a percent of the total number of pixels or more would have to be defective for companies to not ship that screen otherwise they would be trashing tons of LCDs and LCD displays would cost way more.
There are a lot of improvements to be made with LCD technology, for now we are just going to have to live with a few defective pixels.
I just ran this and after 10 mins or so most of my white pixels vanished! great!
Got my PSP, yay, it had 1 stuck pixel, so i took it back, got a new 1, couldn't see anything wrong. It has 2 stuck pixels, have been running this video for about 15mins now, no luck yet. Will post if i have any joy. Sony, what are you doing, you charge us the Earth for your product, which we buy mainly because of the screen quality, and you cant even get that right. Its a joke, sort it out, sooner rather than later, for your sake and for ours
Well I got mine on lauch and found some and I just sent it back and then when I got a new one today it had two more. Sony just sucks
ive got an entire column of stuck pixels! boots better switch it!
I have a few stuck pixels in my grand wega tv. Were can I get this bestbuy dvd or whatever to get these pixels to come alive again. Also in my 50 inch tv I have 25 burnt pixels is this to much?
P.S. my psp had no burnt or stuck pixels
I have a few stuck pixels in my grand wega tv. Were can I get this bestbuy dvd or whatever to get these pixels to come alive again. Also in my 50 inch tv I have 25 burnt pixels is this to much?
P.S. my psp had no burnt or stuck pixels
where can i get this movie, i have 2 stuck pixels:( i need it lol someone email me it pls, dan2kx@gmail.com
boots dont need 2 replace it now :D coz sony r replacin it 4 free, gd boy sony, now sit!
Having stuck pixels donsn't make the PSP defective. The psp still works, it still plays games. I have a 2 or 3 stuck pixels, a dead pixel and some slight dentage in the front cover.
When in games it just disappears.
My brother has a 10 year old game gear with so many dead pixels ina large clump its stupid but you really don't notice them once you get playing.
You don't have the right to have a PSP, if you don't like it problem then don't buy one. I'd rather have the handheld of the century with it's screen problems than a perfect DS any day.
Just get playing and stop bloody whinging about dead pixels. Could you a screen better. NO so SHUT UP.
Go complain to sharp or Samsung, they make the screens. Sony put the psp together and ship it out. They've already gone to the lengths of replacing your PSP with dead pixels but at the end of the day it's a minor problem compared to the awesomeness of having a psp and being able to play ps2 quality games anywhere. Just play and forget about the dead pixels. I do.
How do you save the videos and put them on ur psp?
I had a psp and it developed 3 bright red dead pixels. I returned it. I got a new one and accidentally dropped it lol. Good thing I have a warranty:D! When I got my new one it had six ddead pixels right out of the case. Returned it. My newest one, I opened up the package and........six....dead....pixels! I've ran through 4 psps! I have to keep going back and forth to the mall to replace it! The pixel fixer doesn't seem to work yet but I hope it does! They've really gotta fix these things!
Alright! The pixel fixer does work! It remover one or two after about 24 hours! Unfortunately that's not enough as I have about 5 more. I'm leaving it on all night but I doubt it will do much. I'm just gonna have to return it. oh well!
I bought a PSP system from Toys R Ass, and it has a pixel which is either stuck or dead (I don't know the difference)anyway, they wouldn't allow a refund or even an exchange. This looks like it's a major problem for PSP customers because so many units seem to have this defect. Sony says that the product itself is not defective and the problem with the pixel(s) will not worsen, meaning if your PSP had 2 dead pixels when you bought it, it will allways only have 2 dead pixels, but why is Sony producing such low quality products, or should I say why are they buying such low quality screens, because it's not Sony who manufacture the LCD screens it's Hitachi, Sharp and Samsung. And my guess would be that Samsung screens are the shit ones.
SONY, YOU GUYS HAVE REALLY GONE DOWN HILL SINCE PS2, ALTHOUGH THE PS1 HAD LENS PROBLEMS, I WASN'T REALLY THAT PISSED OFF BECAUSE THE LENS WAS GOOD WHEN IT WAS NEW, IT JUST FAILED TO PERFORM AS WELL AFTER A FEW MONTHS.BUT THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING. IF A PRODUCT IS FAULTY IN ANY WAY, SHOULDN'T THE CUSTOMER HAVE THE RIGHT FOR A REFUND OR EXCHANGE ATLEAST, BUT NO, AN EXCHANGE WOULD ONLY MEAN THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO OPEN ABOUT 10 PSP SEALED BOXES TO FIND ONE THAT MIGHT NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THE LCD PIXELS, AND A REFUND WOULD MEAN THAT ONE MORE PSP WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK TO SONY, AND I BET 90% OF THE PSP SYSTEMS MADE ARE FAULTY TO SOME EXTENT, DUE TO SONY'S EVIL DOING. WHAT EVER SONY THINKS THEY WILL ACCOMPLISH BY THIS CRIMINAL ACT, WILL NOT WORK, EXCEPT IF THEY HATE THEMSELVES SO MUCH AND WANT EVERONE ELSE TO HATE THEM TOO.
SONY WAS ALWAYS A TOP BRAND IN ELECTRICAL AND DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, BUT THEY HAVE SANK LOWER THAN AKAI OR TEAC NOW. I BET IF AKAI MADE THE PSP IT WOULD STILL BE BETTER.
WHERE DO I GET THIS PIXEL FIXER THING ?
DOES IT ACTUALLY FIX THE PIXELS OR JUST DAMAGE MORE OF THEM ?
Yeah, I got a psp, when I turn it on, I get 2 tiny little white pixels at the top, visible on darker backgrounds. I heard abotu this pixel fixer, and it seems promising, but when I download it, it only opens in realtime player, Quicktime doesn't recognize the file type.. even though its mp4.. and I'm new to this, so I dont know how to transfer the video onto my psp after download, can anyone help me out? I'm really bummed about this, since I can't return it. dave.riara@gmail.com if you have any suggestions for me please. I will check back, but if you guys know what this is, please help me out.. Thanks
I have
1 bright white pixel
1 dim white pixel
1 dim blue pixel (it might just be me but if you tilt your head it changes color)
1 dim red pixel.
i ran this thing for ~~9 hours and got nothin....
please help me guys
when i try to get the fixer program on my psp it isn't there, i can't see it on the screen, it isn't in video's or music even though i put it in vidoe's, any help
HELLLLLLLLP! I don't get this crap about sum dead, burnt, stuck pixel S**t. But does any1 hav this so called magic video?Isure wanna see it.
Where can you download the movie for dead pixels
Where is the link to the download to remove stuck pixels, because I can't find any.
I just got one for christmas and am trying the video at the current time, but to the one saying play the game and get over it, 250(US) dollars is a lot to some people. So we the customer have a right to a perfect system or drop the price, the only reason i was mad when i got my stystem was because it costs so much, yet had imperfections (out of the box) what a joke. I like the system but Sony should have handled it better, my laptop screen is perfect, so why is the PSP screen so different. Blood h*ll play the games on your imperfect 250 dollar system plz...
Do you people not realize that these LCD screens have nearly a _million_ pixels? Now, if that isn't enough, each pixel is composed of _3_, completly independent parts. So we've got over two million parts, at least, that all have to work perfectly.
When Integrated Circuits were first mass-produced in huge amounts for things like CPU's starting in late 1970's/early 1980's, and going on to today, huge amounts of the chips were faulty. These had to be thrown away, because, unlike LCD screens, the slightest fault caused it to not work entirely.
Sure, you say, that's a good thing. 100% working, all the time. But guess how much computers cost back then? Thousands of dollars for the 'standard' computer.
The question is: Would you rather pay $200-$300 for a very, very slightly messed up PSP/LCD monitor, or $600 and up for a perfect one?
LCD monitors at this scale, especially being created in such large amounts, is a very new thing compared to IC's. Give them time. Like IC's, we will probably have this sorted out for the most parts within 10 to 20 years. Even TODAY, small amounts of integrated circuits are killed because of particles of dust smaller than one um - just for a note, your hair is between 18um and 180nm thick.
And if you don't like it how you get it, do whatever you want, but whining won't help -- Sony did you guys a favor.
I've got a few stuck pixels on my PSP. I'm running the "stuck pixel fixer video" now, and hopefully they will go away...
well im not sure how to tell the difference between a dead pixel and a stuck one. my problem is. i just got a psp for chritmas and i dont know what happened. maybe i didnt notice it at first but the is a section about as big as a quarter that are just a little bit darker that the rest. and when my deafault- blue psp wallpaper is on i can see it the most. but usually u cant see it. but if i stare at the dark spot (looks like a blob) i noticed 4 little black pixels. are them pixels stuck or dead? i was running the pixel fixer until i heard reprts of it rarely causing more dead pixels. so i shyed away from it.
I've heard that a black pixel is a dead pixel, while pixles that display only one colour is stuck... Am I correct?