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

Apple insists on making everything thinner and thinner. Maybe they have gone too far this time. I myself like things that feel like they have some thickness and weight.

I would rather have the thicker iPad 1 than the thin light leaking iPad 2. If they don't address this soon, I am thinking of just canceling my order until they sort it out. $600.00 plus tax plus case is a lot for something that people are having such problems with.

I already bought one iPad 2 white, 64Gb 3g
I took it back for the same issue
Now I have a second one, identical light leakage
and no more iPad 2 available to exchange. I'm in Canada
and they are sold out. What to do?
At CultOfMac there is this interesting debate/suggestion
http://tinyurl.com/4oh6hf9

In few days I will decide what to do,
sigh anyway

I am getting a little frustrated with the iPad 2. I am currently on my 3rd unit. I have the black iPad 2, 64 gig, wifi only.

1st Unit: Had yellow blotches, dead pixels and bad backlight bleeding
2nd Unit: Had bad backlight bleeding
3rd Unit: Has bad backlight bleeding AND it has a yellow gradient across the screen from left to right. When your viewing a white background the colour is different from one end to the other and its very distracting.

Both times that I have been in they have replaced my unit with a retail unit. I do not want another defective unit. The Apple store lighting is not ideal for me to even inspect the last unit I picked up. Can it be possible to get a replacement that has been inspected first or even if you have to order a replacement unit.

I booked another Genius appointment tomorrow but hope I am not just going to get another bad unit. I have the managers card so I will call them in advance.

annabelle wrote:
I already bought one iPad 2 white, 64Gb 3g
I took it back for the same issue
Now I have a second one, identical light leakage
and no more iPad 2 available to exchange. I'm in Canada
and they are sold out. What to do?
At CultOfMac there is this interesting debate/suggestion
http://tinyurl.com/4oh6hf9

In few days I will decide what to do,
sigh anyway

My back light problem is in the SAME spot as the one you see in the link you posted. AANybody els has the same spot problem?

I completely agree with AZREOspecialist's synopsis.

It does change and flex. I noticed this just before taking the ipad 2 back. Certain poor design/manuf.

It requires a resolution and until it gets one, my £659 is staying firmly in MY account

Good luck to the rest of you 'making do'

Interesting, mine is in the same area. Around the speaker/home button vicinity. Also up in the top right area by the volume rocker switch too.

Mine was the same. It has to be the tension on that LCD with respect of the components adjacent to it.

I am on my second ipad 2 and have the same issue as you all do. The second one I received is not as bad as the first but has light leakage in all the areas you are describing. I was thinking the same thing... Preasure by the volume switch/speakers and left side where the magnets are. Anyone think the magnets are causing some issues?

I agree 100%

If you were to press ever so slightly in these areas, you will see the bleed change.

That LCD is under some tension and something design/assembly wise is in error. This is not a complex issue and is easily resolved with effort/thought.

The market has been here at least 5 years ago and resolved these issues.

I have a lot of lcd tech, some of it very expensive, some not so. None of it has this sort of bleed anymore.

Does anyone know if the iPad 2 3G has screen bleeding or is it all iPad 2's!!

I'am now on my 4th iPad 2 and I was just wondering if the 3G iPad 2 had the screen bleeding issue??

Mine were 64GB at&t 3G iPad 2 (one black and one white).

yes, it does
I have it, tried twice. sigh
and from what I read so far,
it doesn't matter if it is white or black
3g or not, smaller size or bigger size
The leaking is politically correct ; )

If I go into a room and put it to 100% brightness and have a dark screen on, I see light, barely noticeable bleeding. However, it is not even an issues with normal use. The screen looks great IMO. I must be very lucky. I am a picky person when it comes to wanting things close to perfection. I even choose boxes that don't have damage on them. lol I guess I will just see how it plays out and if anything within normal perimeters make it noticeable. I'm pretty sure mine is only a week old. Maybe they did some quality assurance in the newer ones manufactured.

LOL... maybe it was the same person who made all are thre Ipads.. hahahahaha

I just hope that the one they will give me next thursday will be 100%. I am sure of one thing. I want to open it and test it before changing mine I have. This because I have a case number. Otherwhise Apple will think I have changed it and everything is ok. And than if I complain the next day about the new one, they might not want to change it again.

I just keep that idea that the extra 4 weeks since the launch in the USA they may have solved the problem. ALthought I don´t understand how these ipads passes the Quality check. Still, more and more I believe that the HAD TO make the release date, so they thought "just sell the stuff and if people complain we will change them, as long as they buy it and are happy". cause if they didn´t released the 11th of MArch it qould have been a disaster with critics all over the place.

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