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I want to thank the community and all those people who helped clarify my doubts. Finally I managed to connect the graphic LCD screen with a MEGA 2560 board.

Use the U8glib library, in the development of the examples that the library includes, locate the appropriate constructor for the LCD screen that I have.

Now there are some LCD displays available which operate from a 3.3V supply. This is interesting - they do this by incorporating a "charge pump" IC on the display module - you will notice the SOP "footprint" for this option labelled "U3" on the back of your LCD module and a soldered jumper "J1" which bypasses the charge pump (so if you have a 3.3V module, you could switch it to 5V and back if you wanted to). This charge pump boosts the internal supply voltage to 5V while the HD44780 happily accepts the 3.3V logic inputs. You still adjust the Vo to about 0.45V as before, though with the potentiometer now connected across 3.3V rather then 5, its position will be somewhat different.

The job you want to do on the screen is going to consume a lot of your Arduino"s memory. Anything beyond "really simple" will exceed the memory available on an Uno or Micro. You might think that the obvious upgrade path is an Arduino Due but the Teensy is even more capable even though it has fewer output pins. Read https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Memory to understand the limitations and the different types of memory.

Then you"re going to have to jump into the deep end with the screen code. Buy a high resolution screen like this Adafruit 5" one: 5.0 40-pin TFT Display - 800x480 with Touchscreen : ID 1596 : $29.95 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits They have the same resolution in a 7" screen or a smaller screen with smaller resolution. This is about as high as you want to go on an Arduino. Any more pixels on the screen and you will spend absolutely seconds waiting for the screen to update.

Then you need a library to drive the board. The Adafruit one works but I recommend the one Sumotoy on Github has written: GitHub - sumotoy/RA8875: A library for RAiO RA8875 display driver for Teensy3.x or LC/Arduino"s/Energia/Spark This allows you to access most of the features of the RA8875 chip to off-load some of the graphics work. He also has recommendations for cheaper screens to buy from China

That appears to be a standard 4.3" TFT LCD with a 40 pin ribbon cable connection. They are usually 480x272 pixels in resolution but I have no way of knowing that for sure about your particular LCD. They have a standard pin-out and they are 3.3 volt devices (typically).

Practically speaking, you cannot drive that type of LCD directly from an Arduino. You need an additional board or two to make it work in the normal Arduino method. The first board would be a controller that the flying end of the LCD ribbon cable plugs into. The second board is an adapter that plugs into the Arduino that shifts the Arduino"s 5 volt logic levels to the LCD controllers required level of 3.3 volts.

This board plugs into your Arduino Mega or Due and provides the correct connections to the Arduino and LCD controller as well as shifting the Mega"s 5 volt I/O levels to 3.3 volts required by the LCD. While you don"t need the level shifters with a Due (already 3.3 volt I/O), they do no harm and it is much easier than trying to connect 40 wires to the correct points on both ends.

Please notice that I did not say Arduino Uno above. That is because it is impractical to drive a large LCD with an Uno. Sure, it"s feasible and in fact possible but you"ll spend more time trying to figure out ways of jamming 20 pounds of stuff into a 2 pound sack. That said, even the Mega is a so-so choice for driving an LCD when doing lots of screen writes since it has a 16mhz clock. Lots more flash and ram but it"s still relatively slow. An Arduino Due is a far better starting point and I"d dare say that if speed is what you need.

BTW, if you go forward with this, post again for further help. Full color graphic user interfaces are one of the more challenging areas when it comes to Arduino. Lots of choices, lots of compromises to consider.

Yes, as I say, that error has been simply copied by one "tutorial" after another, and incorporated into the I²C backpacks since it "sort of" works so people think it is OK. But it makes contrast setting more difficult and wastes half a milliamp. That may not seem much to worry about except that the LCD itself uses less than a milliamp and this would be significant it operating from a battery. The backlight of course draws 20 mA.

This stems from the fact that the LCD controller itself does not inherently support the function and in fact treats the ASCII codes for and as displayable characters instead of control codes.

In my opinion the basic LiquidCrystal library should concentrate on implementing all of the capabilities of the LCD controller and no more. If people want a library that more closely emulates a CRT (or LCD) terminal that is fine, but I think it should be done in a different library.