My New iPad's screen is flickering after 30min of usage

Hi,

This is the same problem I faced when I played Be-Jeweled Blitz game & it started going off & restarting automatically. In previous days it got fixed by hardbooting. Slowly the problem turned vicious & then I have to restore the original setting through iTunes & finally now it doesnot sync with iTunes & the Apple Stores says now it is hardware problem & require half of the purchase cost of iPad to replace this!!!!! Unfortunately I never approached authorised dealer & try to resolve it by my own thinking that this is Apple!!!! And today I am with an Non-Functioning iPad!!!

Furhter the discussion in this forum is not considered as that you had the problem in past days & you really tried to resolve it, during this if you lose time & out of warranty - you will be considered as defaulter & charged!!!!

Hence I would suggest pls visit the Apple Store & ask for a New Replacement Immmediately or you will also be one of the defeated customer by Apple & believe me No One from Apple Listens for any thing & your Genuinity!!!!

Further you may also refer the discussion thread of mine as under:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3960584

Given that it's new, I'd take it back to the store and have them look at it. It shouldn't be flickering.

That certainly isn't normal behavior, and nobody here can determine with certainty if it's a hardware or software issue. However, if the problem goes away with a reboot, it would indicate that it might be the software. Maybe a clean install of the iOS with a restore of your backup might help.

But ... If the iPad is that "new", I would contact an Apple Genius at an Apple Store and let them have a look - or take it back to the store where you bought it - and return it for another iPad.

Had the same thing happen with the same game. I think we can say it's the game.

Hard boot and things seem back to normal

Yup, experiencing the same thing after playing CSR Racing for a while. Reboot fixes it for a while.

I have the same problem today....just restart it and its back to normal.... Played csr for a while then it start flickering...

How did you know it because of the csr game?.. Imma take mine to the store tomorrow to be sure, since i bought mine just 2 weeks ago...

Same thing occured to me several times after played CSR racing for a while...reboot can fix the problem.

I remember I just locked the screen without quiting the game, and sometimes when I unlocked the screen or the screen automatically lit due to my pre-set reminder, the screen will starts to flickering...

I have the new ipad 3 i had the same problem occurred to me twice after playing the CSR racing game for a while.....reeboting solves the problem. Both the times i played CSR racing for a long time. But to be on a safer side i called up apple support they said Screen should not be flickering and i should restore the ipad to new. If the flickering happens again i should send it in for a repair.

I never experienced such flickering playing other games its only CSR racing. I am not sure if its a hardware or a software issue.

Did u still go to apple store?...

I wish I had known all this before I downloaded that game today. I'm not looking forward to restoring the the iPad to new or having to send it anywhere. I downloaded and was playing CSR for a while today. The screen started flickering after a while. I closed the app and shut all the rest of the apps down. The screen still flickered as I swiped from page to page in the home screen. #scary

I googled the issue and came up with this thread.

I powered the iPad off, waited a few seconds, then powered it back on. No flickering. I'll not be playing CSR Racing on my iPad again. I did like the game untill the conflicts with my iPad began. #toleratenorivalry

I tweeted @CSRRacing and @NMGames about it...hoping that they will examine the issue...since it seems to be clear that the CSR Racing game/app was the catalyst for this event.

My hope is that their software has not permanently affected my hardware.

I'm also waiting to see if the issue resurfaces...I'll be syncing my iPad tonight JIC.

Thank you all for sharing your experiences.

Hey Alex Paz,

Please keep us posted.

Thx

Hello Alex,

I play CSR racing a lot. It went fine for first 2-3 days on my new iPad 3 but then on 4th day after I finished playing and opened twitter the screen started flickering. I reboot the device and everything started working normally. It happened again on the very same day. I thought it was the game. Today when it started flickering again, I closed every opened application manually and locked the screen for 2 minutes. After I unlocked it everything went smoothly. I uninstalled the CSR racing and everything is running fine since last 3 hrs.

I play the CSR on my iPhone4 as well but haven't faced any problem so far.

It's the CSR racing I think.

I hope it helps.

Thanks,

Shaan