HTC EVO suffering from glass separation issues?

Potential bad news for EVO owners: we're seeing plenty of reports from folks having issues with the lower portions of their screens. Conspiracy theories say that the adhesive holding the glass is failing, causing the screen to peel up a bit and embark on a very slow journey to capacitive independence. This separation is causing excessive light leakage from below, a problem that we noted in our review but apparently gets continually worse as users spend more time massaging their screens -- even those not being as hard on theirs as this guy was. No official response from HTC yet and we're not sure just what a fix could be, but we have seen people do some wonderful things with duct tape.

Update: Still no word from HTC, but Troy, a Sprint employee, e-mailed us to say he's not seen any phones being brought in for this issue at his store. He also indicated the phone is a "repairable device" so, if indeed this is something HTC deems worthy of repair it could be something able to be fixed without requiring a replacement. Here's to hoping...

[Thanks, Brandon; image courtesy of Ryan/Selfdestruct]

[robstunner Posted Jun 14th 2010 11:54PM]

@methodoc

yea same here. i had an old iPhone 3g and it did the same thing. and a really old black razr. lol. i guess its not that big a deal?

[robstunner Posted Jun 14th 2010 11:52PM]

yep, noticed my gf's and my evo's doing it. :-/

[mosesv26 Posted Jun 17th 2010 1:56PM]

Unfortunately I'm a victim of this I first started to notice the screen rising and didn't think much of it but I paid close attention to it, but lately I was using it in the dark and noticed the screen is leaking light from the bottom of the phone. I've contacted Best-buy and they are waiting for restock so I can replace my phone. I'm also giving HTC a shout to see what they say. Another person I know also has the same issue and was oblivious until I pointed it out. Side note: Still love the phone ex-iphone owner.

[koneill Posted Jun 18th 2010 2:56PM]

@commonman that's irrelevant. it's where the companies' engineers are and how they're designed that's far more relevant than where they're manufactured. what's your point?