HELP! URGENT!!

dearie^^ SG

ok.im on my way to buy a psp now as a gift for my bro..anyone can tell me what is BRICKAGES or DEAD PIXELS? how to identify?!! i have no idea about this console stuff..pls help!!

Yuki~! SG

ok.im on my way to buy a psp now as a gift for my bro..anyone can tell me what is BRICKAGES or DEAD PIXELS? how to identify?!! i have no idea about this console stuff..pls help!!

I don't know what brickages are but I know a dead pixel is a defective pixel on your PSP that remains unlit.
My PSP has 2 stuck pixels

dearie^^ SG

oh ok..thanks! hmm..can dead pixels be detected immediately? or after few days maybe pop out one..then another day pop out another one??

yuko-ogura SG

A dead pixel is a defective pixel that remains unlit.Dead pixels are usually best seen against a white background.

A stuck pixel will usually be most visible against a black background, where it will appear red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, or yellow, although stuck red, green, or blue pixels are most common. Each pixel on an LCD monitor is composed of three subpixels, one red, one green, and one blue, which produce the visible color of the pixel by their relative brightness. A stuck pixel results from a manufacturing defect, which leaves one or more of these sub-pixels permanently turned on or off.

Stuck pixels are not guaranteed to be correctable, and can remain faulty for the life of the monitor. A stuck pixel might be fixed with JScreenFix, a Java-based application that flashes numerous colors with a very rapid intensity.

--from wikipedia..a wonderful source of info..

yuko-ogura SG

Stuck pixels, unlike dead pixels, have been reported to disappear, and there are several popular methods purported to fix them, such as gently rubbing the screen (in an attempt to reset the pixel), cycling the color value of the stuck pixel rapidly (in other words, flashing bright colors on the screen,) or simply tolerating the stuck pixel until it disappears (which can take anywhere from a day to years.)

As of 2007, most LCD manufacturers do not offer such a warranty as standard and may refuse to fix or replace a monitor with dead pixels (e.g. multiple red pixels), sometimes even if the monitor arrives with the defect. Technically it is impossible to provide dead-pixels free LCDs in long term and some pixels may "die" during normal LCD usage. So there are no formal/written dead pixels policies in place; they vary from country to country, from customer to customer and from manufactuer to manufacturer.

also brought to u from wikipedia, a great source of info.

dearie^^ SG

oo..icic. thanks! hmm..im still agonizing about the bricking and unbricking thing..do i buy a bricked psp or an unbricked one??whats the diff?!?!

yuko-ogura SG

When used in reference to electronics, "brick" describes a device that cannot function in any capacity (such as a machine with damaged firmware). This usage derives from the machine now being considered "as useful, and as entertaining, as a brick." The term can also be used as a verb. For example, "I bricked my MP3 player when I tried to upgrade it."

In the strictest sense of the term, bricking must imply that the device is completely unrecoverable without some hardware replacement. If the device can be repaired through software or firmware changes, it's not a brick.

Some devices which are "bricked" because the contents of their nonvolatile memory is incorrect can be "unbricked" using separate hardware (debug board) that accesses this memory directly. This is similar to the procedure for loading firmware into a new device when the memory is still empty. This kind of "bricking" and "unbricking" occasionally happens during firmware testing and development.

once again..presented to u from wikipedia, a great source of info.