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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.

The fact that the LiquidCrystal library inherits from Print class and thus permits the use of println() essentially makes things worse. Instead of barfing and spitting out an error message it just happily displays two unrelated characters on the screen and the uninitiated have no idea of the cause.

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.

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.

Not really. You will note if you tried both ways, that the contrast control is much more flexible connected this way. Instead of working only over a very narrow range at one end, it works over a much wider range - at both ends.

This is the equivalent of turning the potentiometer all the way to the ground end. In general, it will work and is OK to test if you are having problems (as you are), but generally does not provide the clearest display.

And indeed, if that is the display with no code running, the fact that you get only half a line of blocks demonstrates that the display is definitely faulty.

So the verdict is a dead display. I was a bit puzzled with your original picture and thought you had a 2004 display but of course, it is a 1602. On a 2004, the uninitialised display is "blocks" on the first and third line.

Pardon us when we ask for your actual code, but we always want to check what is in your IDE, not what the tutorial said because - it isn"t always the same.

Not sure what you are trying to articulate there, but if you are talking about the resistor in series with pin 15, that is another story. It is unnecessary with AFAIK, all of the currently available 1602 and 2004 modules since "R8" on the back of the module is "101" or 100 Ohms.

Well, it always used to be, but on the one shown in #11, "R7" is now 330 Ohms so the external resistor is even less necessary. I can"t quite see what "R8" is doing here, but it appears to add another 220 Ohms also. An extra resistor will not hurt things, it will just dim the backlight slightly and save some current.

(1) If the module has a backlight then get it working properly. This involves only pins 15 and 16 on most LCD modules. Make sure to use a current limiting resistor if there is none on the LCD module.

(2) Get the power and contrast working properly. This involves only pins 1, 2, and 3 on most LCD modules. You should be able to just barely see blocks on one row of a two row display and on two rows of a four row display.

NOTE: The Arduino has not been used yet, except as a possible source for the power needed for the first two steps. Do not try to go any further until this is working. If you don"t see the blocks then no amount of program code will help.

If you get a display but it is garbled or has some other problems then try again with a "static" sketch, one that displays a simple message on the top row of the display and then stops. All of your code should be in setup() and loop() should be empty between the brackets.

If you are still having problems then we need to see a photograph of your setup that clearly and unambiguously shows all of the connections between your Arduino and your LCD module. We also need a copy/paste version of the code that you are actually using, not a link to the code that you think you are using.

(1) If the module has a backlight then get it working properly. This involves only pins 15 and 16 on most LCD modules. Make sure to use a current limiting resistor if there is none on the LCD module.

(2) Get the power and contrast working properly. This involves only pins 1, 2, and 3 on most LCD modules. You should be able to just barely see blocks on one row of a two row display and on two rows of a four row display.

NOTE: The Arduino has not been used yet, except as a possible source for the power needed for the first two steps. Do not try to go any further until this is working. If you don"t see the blocks then no amount of program code will help.

If you get a display but it is garbled or has some other problems then try again with a "static" sketch, one that displays a simple message on the top row of the display and then stops. All of your code should be in setup() and loop() should be empty between the brackets.

If you are still having problems then we need to see a photograph of your setup that clearly and unambiguously shows all of the connections between your Arduino and your LCD module. We also need a copy/paste version of the code that you are actually using, not a link to the code that you think you are using.

The axman display I have does work with the versions of LiquidCrystal I have. I actually have 2 of those LCDs and they both seemed to have identical timing characteristics. One thing I have puzzled over without success is if there is a way to explore exactly what is going on with them by comparing the time it takes to write characters when I wait for the busy flag vs what it takes as a timed delay between characters. There is a big difference in throughput with the two methods. Using the busy flag comes considerably closer to what my other displays do, but is still slower. It seems to me that there may be some specific situation that is slow on these displays and it would be interesting to figure out what it is. Anyway if laptopman has a display that is worse than the axman display I would like use one to make my code even more bulletproof.

One thing I did not mention in my previous post is that if you switch to my code and use the rw line, it will test the display"s busy flag and that will likely be more reliable. You certainly won"t need extra delays after each character. The busy flag cannot be used for the initialization sequence called either by LiquidCrystal lcd(rs,rw,en,...) or begin(), however. The initialization sequence requires timed delays.

If I remember correctly even the axman display works faster testing the busy flag than the standard LIquidCrystal routine (which never tests the busy flag) will work with a "good" display. I might be misremembering that. If Don has any insight into how to understand just how I could structure test or what to look for to understand what situation in a sequence of characters sent to the LCD is the slowest thing I would be interested. Maybe there is something that could be done to the non busy flag testing version of my code.

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.

We sell tons of lovely character LCDs for use with Arduino, they are extremely common and a fast way to have your project show status messages. This tutorial will show how you can easily connect a character LCD, either 16x2 or 20x4.

i"m sure all my connections are correct, the display works according to the program but it is very unclear even after adjusting the 10k pot..im not sure what the problem is please help me out..some extra info:

It appears that you installed it using a zip file downloaded from the github repository which created a directory with the incorrect name. Not only is it more difficult to install from a zip file than using the library manger network install capability, but having a library improperly installed can cause issues in the future when updating the library.

Installing from a zip file is not the recommended way to install the hd44780 library unless you are using an IDE prior to 1.6.2 which I would not recommend using and I assume you are not using.

I am making a stabilizer with a MPU6050 using a arduino uno. I am trying to print out the gyro values on a LCD screen but it just doesnt work. It lights up but nothing more, Ive tested printing out the gyro values and they exist and works. This is my code:

... the symbols on the LCD have black colour. If I don"t use this line, they have white colour. Without the lcd.begin() line I I still can"t display some letters. Why does the lcd.begin changes the text colour from white to black? White is much more visible on blue backlight. Is there a way to avoid it?

There are a few factors that are interacting here. If you do not use the lcd.begin() statement then the display is initialized as a 1-line display and when you use lcd.begin(20,2) it is initialized as a 2-line display. As a side effect this changes the duty cycle of the multiplexed display and hence the contrast. Normally you could adjust the contrast potentiometer to get the same contrast (and apparent text color) for either case but you are not using a contrast potentiometer since pin 3 is connected to GND.

The solution is to connect the end terminals of a 5K, 10K, or 20K potentiometer to +5V and GND and connect pin 3 of the LCD to the center terminal of the potentiometer. Now you should be able to adjust the potentiometer to get the desired white symbols.

If you just connect pins 1, 2, and 3 of a 16x2 display you will get that picture because the internal reset circuit sets up the controller for a 1-line display.

If you connect all of the required pins and run a proper initialization routine then the display will be blank or all of the character positions will show blocks (depending on the contrast setting).

If one or more wires are incorrectly connected (this would include poor soldering) or if you do not run a proper initialization routine then you will get one row of blocks on a two row display, two rows of blocks on a four row display, or if you have a true 16x1 display (very rare) eight blocks on the left and 8 blank spaces on the right.

Your second photograph shows the typical results of a display with a poor connection between the pc board and the display. Try pressing (lightly) on the display bezel and see if things change.

We sell tons of lovely character LCDs for use with Arduino, they are extremely common and a fast way to have your project show status messages. This tutorial will show how you can easily connect a character LCD, either 16x2 or 20x4.

i"m sure all my connections are correct, the display works according to the program but it is very unclear even after adjusting the 10k pot..im not sure what the problem is please help me out..some extra info: