theandies
Android Enthusiast
The task bar and anything that is suppose to be black on my screen has turned red. Even the boot screen is red. I took my Prime to the pool (not even close to the water) and I was playing games while watching the kids swim. I played a little Modern Conflict then went for a swim and my son kept playing for me. He put it down on the chair face up. Not really in direct sunlight. When we left I put it in it's sleeve and when I got home and took it out of sleep the task bar was red. I rebooted and the boot screen was red. Turned it off for a while but it's still red.
I was so pissed that night I didn't explore this much. I opened my browser the next morning and on yahoo's home screen all the areas that are suppose to be white are a sky blue color. This is also the way the stock e-mail app looks as well.
I transfered a screenshot to my PC and shows the black normal. Appears to be a hardware issue if the software is rendering the proper colors while creating the screenshot.
I have noticed something since this has happened. Before, when I'd play games or surf heavily the back of my Prime would get warm right where the SoC is located. I've also been having random shutdowns when playing THD games. I think my NVIDIA chip may be messed up. Now the thing runs really good and it doesn't get warm anymore. I've not had any shutdowns since this happened. Maybe something in one or all of the GPU's was messed up to begin with and now that it fried it runs better. I know that sound crazy but I've seen chips do some strange things in the past (I work in the semiconductor industry).
Anyway, hopefully ASUS will replace my motherboard because I don't think it's software related.
Here are some pictures I took with my phone since screenshots render properly. The first picture is how my home screen used to look like. The rest are of the problem.
Shipped out my Prime today. I was suprised to get an e-mail with the postage paid by Asus via FedEx. I still had to pay for extra packing but that's OK. I hope this is a quick turn around. Wish me luck.
I was so pissed that night I didn't explore this much. I opened my browser the next morning and on yahoo's home screen all the areas that are suppose to be white are a sky blue color. This is also the way the stock e-mail app looks as well.
I transfered a screenshot to my PC and shows the black normal. Appears to be a hardware issue if the software is rendering the proper colors while creating the screenshot.
I have noticed something since this has happened. Before, when I'd play games or surf heavily the back of my Prime would get warm right where the SoC is located. I've also been having random shutdowns when playing THD games. I think my NVIDIA chip may be messed up. Now the thing runs really good and it doesn't get warm anymore. I've not had any shutdowns since this happened. Maybe something in one or all of the GPU's was messed up to begin with and now that it fried it runs better. I know that sound crazy but I've seen chips do some strange things in the past (I work in the semiconductor industry).
Anyway, hopefully ASUS will replace my motherboard because I don't think it's software related.
Here are some pictures I took with my phone since screenshots render properly. The first picture is how my home screen used to look like. The rest are of the problem.
Shipped out my Prime today. I was suprised to get an e-mail with the postage paid by Asus via FedEx. I still had to pay for extra packing but that's OK. I hope this is a quick turn around. Wish me luck.
