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Not sure if this due to weather changes or what but theres strange watermarks under the lcd screen. Kind of looks like when you push in on an lcd screen monitor or like that glare gasoline gives off the ground if that makes sense. Kind like a strange chameleon color look.

I already returned my wii u once(glad i didnt buy anything from eshop yet) and i opened this one and just checked the gamepad quick without leaving fingerprints. I saw what I described above on the screen and just quickly packed it back up.

Seems like quality control isnt that great at the moment with the gamepads at least. I"ve had dust marks on the glossy finish and other things like the gamepad protective foam had a hole in the middle and the gamepad had a mark on it. It came off though.

I already returned my wii u once(glad i didnt buy anything from eshop yet) andi opened this one and just checked the gamepad quick without leaving fingerprints. I saw what I described above on the screen and just quickly packed it back up.You opened a brand new never opened up Wii U? If so what your describing may be the plastic they put on electronic devices to help protect them.

found a thread on neogaf which stated its from humidity and that it can be dried out. So I put it up to my heater on high setting and its starting to dissapear.

Ah, so you took it out hardcore, by the way you made it sound you were only taking a peek. (Also, I asked this silly question because in the past I have had people not even know they could remove the plastic film on their other electronics). Yep, that right there does not look to good. No one used harsh chemicals on it or spilled anything on? Because that sort of looks like what can happen and warranties can be void from some companies due to this. If it is a local store (non-electronics based overall) they may just take it right back due to no kind of store policy with no questions asked.

What amazes me is Nintendo makes these boxes where you can easily slip the stuff all back in and slide it right back out. No bloody sealing tap on the taps either. You could have even got one that the store put right back on the shelf from a return and not really know it. (Of course, this is if the person takes the time to make it look like new on putting it back in the box) (Shrugs)

So anyone else with this issue put a blow dryer or heater next to it and it should resolve your problem. Just from humidity.Be real careful with a hair dryer as it could cause damage. Use it on low and possibly cool blow to be on the safe side. As far as humidity goes, if you get it that bad to effect your electronic devices in your house hold, it may be time for a dehumidifier.

found a thread on neogaf which stated its from humidity and that it can be dried out. So I put it up to my heater on high setting and its starting to dissapear.

i should also add, the last one i returned has this problem as well. It was much worse than this one. Strange thing is it didnt have the prolbem for like 5 days and then out of no where appeared all over the screen. Must be something with climate change.

well i decided to start opening up the packaging covering the console itself and started to notice the plastic films that cover the ends of the console look like they"ve been put back on, and theres a bunch of dust and bigger particles.

does anyone remember the plastic packaging for the manual being sealed? I thought it was like that on first one i got. This manual isn"t sealed.The bags around every cord, booklet, et cetera are not sealed. Nintendo seals nothing and could make it easier to swap out a console as I was saying before. (Not an utmost easiest thing to do, but not the hardest either). The only thing that is done for sealing per se is the plastic ties around the cords so they do not slide about.

What you have there may be Newton Rings. The "gasoline" like mark you see is caused by interference between rays of light reflected by the top and bottom surface of the very thin air gap between the two pieces of glass. In Wii U case its one piece of clear plastic and glass. Although figure 1 shows an ideal situation- it gives you an idea of why Newton Rings form on the Wii U gamepad. Google Newton Rings for more images.

Figure 1. Basically the two bands of light interact with one another to form rings of light and dark areas, or rainbowy colours. This is because the light ray reflected by the flat pane of glass has to travel a further distance (Δy), and is out of phase with the light ray reflected by the curved glass.

Now why would the Wii U"s gamepad do this? Well because of the nature of the resistive touch screen. Unlike capacitive touch screens which has two straight glass panels, resistive has one lower glass panel and the upper is a flexible plastic screen (In figure 2 it is Polyester). Like trying to stretch out a really big bed sheet with someone so its perfectly flat, the middle of the bed sheet will alwase be "domed" down due to gravity. My guess is that the Polyester upper screen (Assuming it is polyester, which is a plastic) domes downwards a little (due to gravity? electrostatic force? Not %100 sure.). The upper plasctic surface being curved and the tiny air gap underneith causes this circular interefernce pattern we call Newton Rings.

I don"t know why the game pad has that particular pattern in that location, perhaps its wrinkles in the material or local depressions in that spot or maybe its humidity causing the material to warp (I"m not a materials expert). Most images and figures are highly idealized anyways, which means in nature it doesn"t alwase appear as nice concentric circles, like figure 3.

Please excuse any bad writing and please feel free to criticise any bad science(science is about disproving a theory until you find one that can"t be disproven!). This is just my theory on why there are "gasoline" marks, feel free to interject.

Also hot blowdryer and plastic isnt a really good match... seriously though you can only really see it when the pad isn"t displaying anything, no biggy. I"ve been using mine like like that since launch, it really not noticeable in my opinion. The call is yours to make if you want to take it back, but I personally wouldn"t try to fix it by heating or anything, it may warp the plastic top Resistive Screen surface (and void the warrenty).

In some cases, you may see light and dark circles show up on a touchscreen. These circular reflections are called Newton Rings and do not have any effect on the proper functioning of the LCD panel or on the touch functionality.

Due to temperature or pressure differences, the film used for the resistive touch screen may not perfectly adhere to the glass layer of the LCD panel. This can cause reflections showing up as coloured rings.

These rings go away as the panel warms up during use, and may return again when the system has cooled down. Their occurrence is a known limitation of the used technology and does not indicate a product defect.

well i decided to start opening up the packaging covering the console itself and started to notice the plastic films that cover the ends of the console look like they"ve been put back on, and theres a bunch of dust and bigger particles.

The plastic also never guarantees dust free, its only to prevent scratches during shipping not dust. Its perfectly possible for dust to get on the console at the factory before they even put the plastic on.

What you have there may be Newton Rings. The "gasoline" like mark you see is caused by interference between rays of light reflected by the top and bottom surface of the very thin air gap between the two pieces of glass. In Wii U case its one piece of clear plastic and glass. Although figure 1 shows an ideal situation- it gives you an idea of why Newton Rings form on the Wii U gamepad. Google Newton Rings for more images.

Figure 1. Basically the two bands of light interact with one another to form rings of light and dark areas, or rainbowy colours. This is because the light ray reflected by the flat pane of glass has to travel a further distance (Δy), and is out of phase with the light ray reflected by the curved glass.

Now why would the Wii U"s gamepad do this? Well because of the nature of the resistive touch screen. Unlike capacitive touch screens which has two straight glass panels, resistive has one lower glass panel and the upper is a flexible plastic screen (In figure 2 it is Polyester). Like trying to stretch out a really big bed sheet with someone so its perfectly flat, the middle of the bed sheet will alwase be "domed" down due to gravity. My guess is that the Polyester upper screen (Assuming it is polyester, which is a plastic) domes downwards a little (due to gravity? electrostatic force? Not %100 sure.). The upper plasctic surface being curved and the tiny air gap underneith causes this circular interefernce pattern we call Newton Rings.

I don"t know why the game pad has that particular pattern in that location, perhaps its wrinkles in the material or local depressions in that spot or maybe its humidity causing the material to warp (I"m not a materials expert). Most images and figures are highly idealized anyways, which means in nature it doesn"t alwase appear as nice concentric circles, like figure 3.

Please excuse any bad writing and please feel free to criticise any bad science(science is about disproving a theory until you find one that can"t be disproven!). This is just my theory on why there are "gasoline" marks, feel free to interject.

Also hot blowdryer and plastic isnt a really good match... seriously though you can only really see it when the pad isn"t displaying anything, no biggy. I"ve been using mine like like that since launch, it really not noticeable in my opinion. The call is yours to make if you want to take it back, but I personally wouldn"t try to fix it by heating or anything, it may warp the plastic top Resistive Screen surface (and void the warrenty).

In some cases, you may see light and dark circles show up on a touchscreen. These circular reflections are called Newton Rings and do not have any effect on the proper functioning of the LCD panel or on the touch functionality.

Due to temperature or pressure differences, the film used for the resistive touch screen may not perfectly adhere to the glass layer of the LCD panel. This can cause reflections showing up as coloured rings.

These rings go away as the panel warms up during use, and may return again when the system has cooled down. Their occurrence is a known limitation of the used technology and does not indicate a product defect.

The plastic also never guarantees dust free, its only to prevent scratches during shipping not dust. Its perfectly possible for dust to get on the console at the factory before they even put the plastic on.

You"re right. I brought the new one home today and the film coverings looked the same as last. What"s strange is it was packed slightly different. There was green tape on the console holding all the ends together. The gamepads foam cover looked a little different.

This ones gamepad also had that water mark on the screen. So this is normal. Like people said on neogaf, this can be dryed out and will eventually go away.

When i read this post i went and see if my gamepad has that mark...and it has. I am not worried at all. If i haven"t read this post i probably never had noticed it.

I"ve seen this on an old mobile phone I repaired ages ago, it"s where the resistive touch layer is in contact with the actual LCD. When I pulled the touch layer away, it went. Reseated it and it was fine but if I touched it in the area where it was, the water marking would come back. The problem was caused by the sticky foam strips that stick the two layers together. I bought some new foam strips and the problem was cured. not the easiest of jobs though parting the touch layer from the LCD.

It can be done, you need to heat it up to loosen the stickyness of the foam strips as they are mega strong. If you can live it it, I would suggest you do that or send it back for replacement if that"s possible.

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I was happy with the product itself. Includes both a replacement LCD and replacement touch screen digitizer glass. The reason for 4-stars instead of 5-stars is that it was meekly packaged with bubble wrap and a padded envelope and consequently the ribbon cable on the LCD screen was solidly crimped. Ribbon cables are very sensitive and it left me with the choice of having to do all the work of replacement just for a 50-50 chance the screen would be good. Even worse, it was crimped in the opposite direction of the way the ribbon cable needs to flex inside the Wii U gamepad controller. Ugh. I order touch screens replacements occassionally (mostly for broken phones) and whereas 2/3rds of the time they are meekly packaged like this one, 1/3rd of the time they come in a proper solid plastic-molded container to prevent exactly this sort of damage. But with such a large (and relatively heavy) screen compared to a 4-inch phone screen... good packaging becomes even more important. Although most people should not bother installing the screen with a ribbon cable in such a condition I didn"t want to wait and go through the effort of a replacement without trying it, and fortunately the screen worked fine. However, because the ribbon cable is now flexing against the crimp, there"s a small chance it will eventually fail. Fortunately, the price is so good I will accept that small chance.Took 9 days to arrive with the free shipping and included the needed Y-tip screwdriver that all Nintendo products use for their external screws. The Y-tip screwdriver was of good quality.I did not utilize the touch digitzer glass and instead opted to use / transfer the original Nintendo one. If you don"t need a to replace the digitzer you"ll want to keep the current one, otherwise you have to go through the extra significant step of trying to extricate the moulding off of both sides of the older digitizer to transfer it to the new one. Plus, 3rd-party digitzers are rarely as good as factory ones. Again though, I didn"t test out this digitizer glass.The LCD screen itself I found to be of high quality (bright and crisp) and had the proper metal slide catches on the side that made it an exact replacement.I would definitely order from them again as I am happy with the product, and the listing was very clear this included both the LCD and digitzer glass + the Y-tip screwdriver for a great price, and it arrived in a reasonable time. Just the anxiety of having a very damaged-looking ribbon cable from the get-go due to the mediocre packaging was not at all welcomed. Hopefully they will address this in the future.There are plenty of youtube videos on the replacement process, but none of them were perfect. Aside from checking out a few videos, here are my tips:1) Whether you use the replacement digitzer, or are able to salvage the old one, you will need to seperate the glued black rubber in between the old glass, and the old LCD. Ideally, you should use a hair dryer to warm this up. If you mangle it, it"s hard to get the little bits of rubber out from between the glass and the LCD when you put them together. It"s very important to get all dust and particles out.2) There are two 4-wire (super thin... 1/2 cm) ribbon cables that connect to the Wii U gamepad controller, one from the digitzer screen, and one is for the power connector to the LCD screen. Being an experienced laptop and phone tech I can tell you these attach to the circuit board using the oddest flip-up-release tabs I have seen *very long and narrow*. They flip up from the rear end (the oppose side of where the cable plugs in). Exactly none of the videos on youtube showed this very delicate operation. Use a plastic pry tool to flip up the rear end of this long-thin ribbon cable connector.3) Getting the volume switch on the top/rear of the gamepad controller back in, is tricky. It took about a dozen times.4) Be very careful with the wires near the volume control, it"s hard to place them to not get squished when you put the cover back together.5) You absolutely want to transfer the ribbed plastic moulding stuck to the digitzer glass if you are going to use the new digitizer glass, and ideally should transfer the rubber from the inside of the glass as well, or replace it using two or three layers of double-sided Scotch sticky tape.6) Make sure the digizer glass and LCD are perfectly aligned. Again, I didn"t use the replacement digitzer but the replacement LCD was 100% size-perfect with the original, so the original glass certainly fit on perfectly 100% flush on all edges.

If there is something I still wonder about Nintendo, it’s why they never started to sell the GamePad separately. It’s weird considering the console is already three years old and the tablet-like controller is needed for playing most games and using many of the system’s features. I mean, if they are selling a large variety of Wii Motes, the Pro Controller, different cables, cradles, and chargers (among other accessories), why not the most important controller of this home console?

Of course, you can actually request a factory sealed Wii U GamePad by contacting Nintendo’s support (if there’s one your country), which was priced back in 2013 at around $140. If you are not able to buy a new controller and yours is broken, the best thing you can hope is to find someone authorized or able to repair it.

Since the NX will be announced next year, and usually a new console from Nintendo comes with backwards compatibility with the previous consoles, it makes me wonder if Nintendo is planning to introduce a new controller. It could be a new GamePad that can be used for both the NX and the Wii U, using better technology or helping it be cheaper by making some changes. Remember, the 3DS’ original price at launch was $250, which is even more expensive than the bigger and updated version of the console: the New 3DS XL’s launch price was just $200. Quite a difference, right?

Whatever the case, in the event that Nintendo is already working on a new GamePad, these are new features I want to see on that controller (or at least a few of them).

If Nintendo doesn’t decide to update the Wii U to make this option possible, at least they can add a small extra button to the new controller, allowing it to turn off the controller without also turning off the console. This little button could also get a second option, where pressing for a long time it would turn the screen off instead, allowing players to use this ability on games that don’t use the GamePad’s screen or on Wii games as a Classic Controller without wasting the battery.

I find it frustrating that you can access the Wii Mode and use the GamePad as a screen, but you are not allowed to use the buttons even if they are in front of you. Why the Gamepad isn’t compatible with the Wii mode is a mystery, especially considering that hackers were able to use the Wii U Pro Controller in Wii homebrew without problems.

I doubt that Nintendo will want to update the Wii firmware to add this silly option right now, but it would be great if they could make the GamePad be detected as a Classic Controller for the Wii instead.

I know that Nintendo already offers their extended battery pack for those wanting a longer battery life, which is often needed considering that the original battery can’t last more than four or five hours on a good day. Still, that doesn’t mean Nintendo has an excuse to keep going this route for a new GamePad, where they could easily add the extended battery from the start instead.

The Wii U Gamepad already has Bluetooth functionality, but I don’t know how it is used since the GamePad uses a Wi-Fi signal to connect to the Wii U (including the video streaming). Whatever the case, offering support for Bluetooth headsets would be a great idea, since once could listen the GamePad’s audio output without needing to use wires or keeping the Gamepad close to you while you are using a Pro Controller to play.

The LCD screen of the actual GamePad is solid enough, but a LED screen would be even better for the controller since it offers a better quality image and has a lower power consumption leading to a longer battery duration. LED screens are also more durable against constant use and scratches, which is a big plus. I know that using an OLED screen would look even better, but that would make the controller even more expensive.

That’s all I can think of for additions the GamePad could realistically get, but feel free to share in the comments if you have more ideas for a possible new Wii U Gamepad!

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