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TV screen lines are an irritating occurrence, and many different issues with the TV can cause them. This article will go over what causes this, whether or not you can fix it depending on the cause, and how to fix it.
When any part of a TV"s display gets damaged, corrupted, or is defective, it can cause lines to appear on the screen. Some TV parts that can cause horizontal lines to appear are the LCD panel, T-Con board, or row drivers.
LCD screen damage. The LCD provides your TV display with light. If you"re handy, you might be able to fix this by doing a little work with the insides of the TV, which you can read about below.
Take a look at the LCD screen. If it"s damaged, you may want to get the screen repaired or replaced. It may be a less costly option than buying a new TV altogether.
Vertical lines on a TV appear for the same reasons as horizontal lines: loose cables and wires, screen damage, or a faulty T-Con board. Leaving the TV turned on for too long can also cause vertical lines.
If your TV screen looks blue, it could be faulty connections, a defective backlight, or incorrect color settings. Some LED TVs naturally have a blue tint, which you can offset by changing the color temperature.
To fix screen burn on a TV, adjust the brightness settings and enable pixel-shift. Sometimes playing a colorful video with fast-moving action for half an hour might help.
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Back in April last year, Lionel blogged about a vertical line issue that could potentially affect customers who own 17" Inspiron 9200, 9300, and XPS Gen 2 notebook LCDs.
After engaging our engineering and product group teams, as well as the LCD manufacturer, to investigate and isolate the cause of this issue, we narrowed the problem down to a specific part within a certain date range. During that research, we found that the part may also affect the Inspiron 6000, 8600, Latitude D800, D810, and Precision Mobile Workstation M60 and M70 LCDs. That led to Lionel"s second blog post on the topic.
We"ve taken steps to contact those who may be affected to offer a warranty replacement and also put in place measures to rectify any out of pocket expense incurred by out of warranty customers who replaced the affected screens in the past.
That said, there are other variables that can lead to vertical and horizontal lines on other system types regardless of size or model. Lines on an LCD can appear sporadically, at random places on the screen, and for what appears to be for no reason at all. These lines can be caused by normal LCD failures brought on by a multitude of variables, which I"ll try to cover here. Vertical lines tend to be a more common issue in notebooks, primarily because they are subjected to more wear and tear on a daily basis than a desktop LCD.
The most common cause of these lines is simply a loose connection. As notebook systems are carried around, no matter how careful we try to be, they have a tendency to be bumped, jarred, and even sometimes the heart stopping drop. Though today"s notebooks are designed to better absorb and dissipate small shocks, it can still have adverse affects on the notebook"s internal components. A good bump or series of bumps and random movements can cause the LCD cable to become loose. The connection remains intact, but some breaks in the signal can lead to impurities in the reproduction of the image on the screen. Think of a loosely-fastened garden hose… water will still be directed and outputted through the end of the hose, but some water is lost at the connection. This is easily fixed by tightening the hose. Similarly, the LCD can usually be fixed by simply making sure the connection is secure. (Service manuals for Dell systems can be found here on support.dell.com.)
If these simple fixes don"t seem to work, then we need to look at the actual failure possibilities. Vertical or horizontal lines that don"t disappear after the basic troubleshooting are usually caused by circumstantial failures. The most common type of failure that leads to lines on the display is an open circuit connection between the driver IC (flexible circuit board) and LCD glass. This is usually caused by external stresses (mechanical, thermal, etc…), which causes the flex circuit to detach from the glass. The variables leading to the detachment are wide and are dependant on individual cases. With the amount of travel and various operating environments of a notebook, pinpointing the exact cause can be near impossible, unless of course the problem immediately follows a catastrophic event such as dropping the notebook or prolonged exposure to heat or cold, such as leaving the system in a car.
If you are experiencing any problem with lines on your LCD and your system is not one of the potentially affected units, or in the date range outlined in Lionel"s earlier posts, please contact technical support to troubleshoot and identify possible fixes. See below for details on how to do that.
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LCD display screens are made up of two thin layers of glass containing liquid crystal material between them. When the glass becomes damaged, debris infiltrates the crystal layer or another issue occurs with the display function, this causes vertical lines of color to appear when the monitor is fully illuminated. These lines can be either permanent due to internal failure or temporary due to faulty display connections.
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Immediately upon initial installation, it had thin colored vertical lines, about 20-30 lines, in a vertical band about ten inches wide, right in the middle of the screen.
However, the solid black background remained and grew a little wider. The solid black background spans the width of the screen from top to bottom. It is about twenty-two inches wide.
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This problem occurs because of a hardware limitation that is known as "tearing." Tearing is a video artifact in which the top portion of the screen shows a different frame of video than the bottom portion. This is more noticeable during scenes that contain fast motion. There may be a noticeable horizontal line at the point where the two frames meet.

Watching your mobile screen with those white or black vertical/horizontal lines is annoying. In short, it’s tough to use a phone with these lines appearing on the screen. Typically, this issue is associated with the LCD, caused by a faulty hardware component in your device due to some accidental fall or water damage. Phones with such damages can only be fixed at a phone repair center.
If there’re white lines on the screen, this solution may prove effective. A battery cycle is when you charge a mobile to 100% and let it drain to 0% again. Usually, the lines will disappear soon as you charge the battery fully.
If the horizontal or vertical lines still appear on your phone screen after trying all the above methods, you better take your device to a reliable mobile repair store near you. Most likely, it’s a faulty hardware component that needs to be repaired or replaced. Here, we would suggest you opt for only an authorized service center, as this will ensure flawless repair at a reasonable cost. Besides, if any of the components have to be replaced, they will be genuine and as per your specific requirements.

Vertical lines appearing on LCD screen is very common. Whether the screen belongs to a laptop computer or desktop PC, mobile phone, or even a television, the fault is usually due to the ribbon cable and its connections.
A faulty ribbon cable can cause all sorts of havoc manifesting in bright vertical lines. Sometimes they can be coloured lines such as blue, green, grey, black, and red. The lines can appear thick or thin and on just one-half of the screen. Sometimes the fault will manifest as two vertical white lines. You can even get horizontal lines as well.
If you have lines appearing on the LCD screen, then the first simple thing to check is the seating of the ribbon cable that connects the display panel to the motherboard. Most of the time, the fault is with the poor connection made by the ribbon cable.
One of the most common problems with ribbon cables is oxidation of the contacts. It can happen either on the ribbon cable contacts or on the socket contacts. Manufacturers often use a mix of gold and copper for the electrical contacts, however, if they have not used enough gold, then oxidation occurs over time. This results in a working television or laptop screen suddenly exhibiting lines.
One of the most common faults with laptops is that the ribbon cable connecting to the LCD panel cracks. It typically fails near the hinge area due to flexing in that region, and over time, some of the tracks on the plastic cable breaks. I have seen these types of faults on many laptops. It does not matter whether it is a Lenovo, IBM, Acer, Samsung, Toshiba, or even a MacBook Pro!
This type of fault can also occur on LCD televisions; however, it tends to be on new units, where the box has received an impact during transit from the factory.
I used this same method of troubleshooting to repair an LCD television recently. Modern televisions have a video out socket, and if you feed the signal from that to another monitor, you can check for the quality of the video display. If the external monitor does not show lines, then you know for sure that it is a connection issue. Hence, this method of troubleshooting works for some of the modern televisions as well.
Generally, for laptops a replacement cable is always required due to it breaking near the hinge. I had this Dell laptop and replacing the LCD ribbon cable solved the problem. I managed to buy a replacement from Dell for a modest price £6.00. The laptop was just outside the warranty period; however, they still shipped out the cable free of charge. This is the reason why people buy Dell. In my experience Dell tend to stand by their customers and products, and their prices for replacement parts are realistic and down to earth.

Q:"Vertical lines on iPhone 11 screen!! This is what happen to my phone after I bought it 3 days. Several lines appeared on the screen suddenly. Any idea why it happens? Any other user facing the same problem with me?" – From an iPhone 11 user
There are always a large number of reports from users stating that they find vertical lines on iPhone screen. This is an old problem, starting with the iPhone 4 and continuing through the iPhone X, 11 and 13. the color of the lines may vary from black, red, blue, green, pink, grey or purple. It could result from physical damage and software problems. Anyway, to solve this problem, you should follow the 10 solutions below, so that you can get rid of the lines while reducing the cost of the repair to the minimum.
The colored lines on the iPhone screen in vertical direction could be caused by a few things. No matter which specific situation you"re encountering, the following content will give you some idea of why.
The vertical line problem often occurs with Apple users and you might not know what to do when it appears on your screen. Here a video tutorial will lead you to the right place and guide you to fix this issue clearly.
A force restart is similar to taking out the battery and putting it back on. It is going to completely shut down all the apps and programs running on your iPhone. Whenever you see there are lines across the screen, you can fix it easily by hard rebooting your iPhone. After the hard reboot, the lines on the screen may disappear. To hard restart your iPhone, follow the tutorial enclosed below.
iPhone 8 and later iPhones: Press the "Volume Up" button and release it quickly, then press the "Volume Down" button and release it quickly; then hold the "Power" button until you see the Apple logo on the screen.
It might seem ridiculous, but in some cases, iPhone screen lines vertical problem are caused by things as little as water drops or dust. These things can be difficult to notice when you have a screen protector on the screen. If the water drops or dust get stuck between the screen and the screen protector, it is natural that there will be vertical lines across the screen. Therefore, you might as well remove the screen protector, clean the screen with a cloth and see if the lines have gone.
It is also possible for vertical lines to appear when LCD cables become disconnected from the logic board during sudden jolts or a fall. A slightly shifted iPhone screen does not necessarily mean that it is damaged; it is just a slight shift.
It might be workable to remove the vertical lines by gently pushing the iPhone"s screen back into place to reconnect the cables with the logic board. Make sure that you do not apply too much pressure to the screen in order to prevent the screen from breaking further. The steps are as follows:
This issue may result from the bugs of some outdated iOS versions. A user complains to us that vertical lines on iPhone 5s screen, and simply updating the system works. We understand that some users may think that iOS updates are useless in general, but that is not true. Except for the updates of new features, iOS update often contains bug fixes, which is very important to the normal function of the iPhone.
You are now in the mode selection window. To avoid losing data, choose the "Standard Repair" and click on right-arrow button. If your device failed to be detected, refer to the on-screen operations to enter DFU/recoevry mode.
Some of the info about your iPhone will be displayed on the screen. Make sure all the info is correct and change the wrong points. Then click the "Download" button to download the matching firmware package.
Lastly, click the "Repair" button. The downloaded firmware package will be unzipped, and the program will start to fix the vertical lines on your iPhone screen. A few minutes later, the repairing process will finish, and the lines on the screen will disappear.
No matter is purple vertical lines on iPhone screen, or other colors, these ways may help you. A factory reset will be needed in the way. In this process, your device is wiped and returned to its original factory settings. All your data will be lost. Before restoring your data, ensure that it has been backed up. To revert to factory settings:
As we mentioned in the beginning, the vertical lines on your iPhone screen are usually a sign of physical damage to your hardware. If you see the lines after dropping your phone, it is very likely the screen or the motherboard is damaged. In this case, letting the Apple technicians fix the hardware damages will be much safer than repairing it on your own.
It is common for smartphone devices to have vertical lines. A variety of gadgets are affected, not just iOS devices. Luckily, vertical lines on iPhone screen can be dealt with by most of the solutions listed here. Note that some of the methods mentioned above may lead to data loss, so we strongly recommend you to back up data in advance or use Joyoshare iOS System Recovery directly, which will not cause data loss and has a very high success rate. We hope that one of the methods in this article can help you.
Ms.Josey
Ms.Josey