Significant light leakage, few light botches on sides/corners - defective?

em3000 wrote:

FixYa reports that 15% of iPad users report display issues:

http://blog.fixya.com/pr/feb/

This may not be completely representative. But it doesn't sound like a 1% problem to me.

Anyway. I've got an iPad 2 with a defective screen and am now waiting for over a week for a replacement.

And that 15% is only 15% of the customers that reported the issues or returned them. The other 80% of population either:

a). Realized and know their ipads having display issues but willing to put up with them and not returning the product.

b). Display issues bothers them, but because they own Apple shares they tell others that 99.999% of iPads are just fine which is a lie...

c). They don't know what the problem is with the display. Even though the problem is right in front of them, they think it's fine. There are average Joe out there that don't have sense and don't care about screen imperfections as long as they can watch movies or get on internet.

So let's say the ipad customers is 3 million. The numer of defective iPads would be at 95% (15% + 80%) of the iPads sold. That's whopping Two Million Eight Hundred Fifty Thousand ipads defective.

William Kucharski, you need to wake up.

But honestly, 99.9999999% of all iPad 3's they sold are defective. It just that not everyone is returning the product or reporting the issues. So that's virtually 3 million iPads defective.

William Kucharski wrote:

Let's see, last time I checked over 13 million iPad 2s had been sold in the 3Q of 2011 alone.

So you're telling me that at least 1.95 million (13m * .15) users are having issues and it's not more widely known?

Sorry if I can't believe that.

I can't believe that, but I can believe all 13 million iPad 2's being defective. That's virtually 100% failure rate. Now that I believe. 🙂

Read my previous post about massive number of people either hiding the the problem or not knowing what the problem is. This is true.

iPad 2's sold in Q3 2011 have been rumored and confirmed to be using the Samsung panels which don't have the problems that the LG panels have, however the colors are different.

Yes, because people keep them on 50% brightness and don't use them in dark areas -- they see that as being acceptable on a $500 device with an IPS display. I don't.

After 10 days i received a replacement. No light leak. No white spots. But a yellow tint on the lower border. It's annoying on white web pages. But i don't want to send it in for another 10 days.

guy, i bought a new ipad, came with backlight bleeding, so i change for another one, came with very little bleeding, but the lcd came with a red tint in the top part of the display, like a white-pink tint, i give up, i ask my money back and i will not buy another one, is unaceptable a device of 579 euros come with problems, no matter if are minimal or big, a device that costs 600 euros cannot come with these kind of issues, my opinion is the problem is the LG displays, before apple devices come with samsung lcd that have a great quality, but the samnsung and apple starts to fight and apple stop to buy components from samsung, so now apple works with crap LG lcds, sharp LCD, if i remember the psp 3000 from sony used to come with sharp LCD that have scanlines in all PSP 3000, apple must buy samsung LCD again, they have a great quality, i think 98% of all ipads 2 and 3 have display issues but the peoples are so exicited with

"my ipad, i got a ipad" that just cant see problems, but they still there, my sugest is, give back your ipads, ask money back, and wait to buy a new one, because apple devices are very expensive to come with problems even if they are minimal, a device of 600 or 800 canot come with any problem, APPLE RESPECT YOUR COSTUMERS AND SELL GOOD THINGS NOT CRAP WITH IOS.

Hi

I have a 32gb wifi ipad in white, really I didn't check if I have any of the problems that usully the people say, but today I see this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8835509@N03/7354349710/

do you think I must ask for replace the unit?

Thanks

I have the same issue as you Carmen. Not sure if Im going to do anything about it yet though.

John

Dear Utopist, I went to an Apple Store with my iPad and they give me a new one it without problems, I recommend to you to go to an Apple Store!!

In my case, the iPad was 2 months , and is under the Apple Care's protection

For me, in this case, Apple 10 points!!

Carmen

Went to the Apple Store and got a replacement. When I got home the new replacement ipad had a pink tint on the left side of the screen. I took it back to the Apple store and they clearly saw that it was defective. Two additional replacements later I still have an Ipad with an uneven tint... Awaiting a call from Apple.

john

Those that now have the ipad mini, has this issue shown up yet?

This thread started 18 months ago. Things have moved on....

yet there are still threads out there discussing it, note the last reply is still from mid way this year...

ipad isn't the only tablet to have this issue. pretty much every forum related to any other tablet also has this type of message. i would be shocked if the mini did not have leakage.

i agree though the unevenness and varacity of people getting it, compared to the ipad 1 is astounding. I dont mind a little, but what i cannot live with is alot, a huge amount that is severe. I have had this issue personally and i was a skeptic, ive actually not seen an ipad2 without this issue, even in the apple store! ive never seen it/heard about many ipad 1's with the issue.

Looks like even after all this time Apple still does not get the message.

A friend of mine in Norway just bought an iPhone 5 (unlocked) -- cost him almost $1000 USD.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tf0odlnx11jg4li/iphone%205%20error.JPG

Also has multiple scratches on the aluminum case.

Wonder why the stock price is tanking?

They don't care about QC at all...they try to make people focus on the software *so* much that people don't notice the crap build quality or they are told to "just get over it" by bloggers and tech support, or that the scratches and light leak are "normal" --phil schiller saying scratches are normal even right out of the box:

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/25/phil-schiller-says-iphone-5-scratching-norma l-for-any-aluminum-product/

. This in unacceptable and how much you want to bet this is going to continue to be a major problem for Apple as the years go by and for every single iDevice refresh --- they really need to do something about this.

Yes, even if most people don't notice or care about it -- it's there and it's not acceptable for a premium brand to produce devices such as this to make their way off the assembly line and pass QC and into an end users hands when they unbox it. Completely unacceptable. I guess they figure the demand is so high and if you are already locked into the apps / itunes system you really do have no alternative so you have to just deal with it...shame.