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This worked perfectly. I 'massaged' the margins of the LCD and the bezel. The screen was back to normal when I turned the laptop back on.
Thank you,
Don
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From http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-948389.html :
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I had this problem on my MBA. I took the kit into an Apple Store and they diagnosed the display and defective and in need of replacement and this was priced at £600 sterling. I took it home, cried and began to work around the strip of interference while I decided whether to give this device a Viking funeral or get it done. Quite by chance I decided to clean the display with a cleaning wipe that I had bought from an Aldi store, made for cleaning spectacles. The screen came up like new but to my relief and amazement, the display went back to normal! Every few months is starts to go again, I wipe it with one of these wipes and it's fine again. The trouble I have now is that the strip has returned and I have run out of wipes! This is clearly (no pun intended) static so go down this route.
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I registered just to say thank you for that tip. You may have just saved me anywhere between €300 and €600. I have exactly the same problem on my first generation Macbook Air. Vertical stripe of flicker appeared right down the middle of the display today. I was about to despair and bring the thing down to the Apple reseller near my home, taking on the surely huge repair fees, but your tip with wiping the screen helped. The stripe is gone, hopefully for a long time :-)
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I too was woeful about the very same symptom and was about to incur great expense in repair, then happened upon this and gave it a try. Voila! It worked. My tech says rubbing the surface with a cloth likely triggered a restoration from a bad connection, simply through pressure on the screen. Whatever. All I care about is that it works again with no costs in repairs. My MBA also had no signs of hinge damage.
BTW, I used a standard eyeglass cleaner spray (directly on the screen, small amount) and a standard eyeglass cloth. I'll bet anything would have worked, probably even a moistened tissue.
Thank you, and I hope others benefit in the same way. Mine is one of the earlier MBA's with the tapered edges rather than the newer ones with edges having plug-ins.
