I thought I had destroyed my thermostat so I searched for instructions like this. Yours are by far the best explanation that I found. Thank you for taking the time to make this.

The suggestion was excellent to solve the issue of LCD in my Casio calculator. The problem was in the connection strip. By heating with hairdrier and pressing in the contacts area, the LCD now working like new. Thanks

Hi, well I've had a good day today, I fixed the LCD pixel problem that I had on my SONY mini hifi system using this video as a guide. I didn't do it exactly as the link but it was certainly a good guide. What I did in the absence of a soldering iron was use the side of a kitchen fork prong that I had heated up on the gas ring for 10 seconds. Then I positioned the heated prong exactly where I wanted it, pushed down on the furthest fork prong away to give a good amount of pressure and held for 75 seconds which allowed the heated prong to cool down. So, I was doing 3/4" about every 2-3 minutes. I did have to put the unit back together to see how I got on & take it all apart again several times but eventually I got there. Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction ShortcutElectronics.

@ytrew9717

2 жыл бұрын

LCD repair using a fork! you should have make a video of it!

I have many many many years trying to fix my VW LCD clock which is dead since I get the car, like 17 years ago. I really appreciate your detailed explanation how to fix it...

I cleaned the zebra connector of a kitchen timer but no luck. The problem was the other side of the connector which was stuck to the lcd. I pulled it off and cleaned it. It was tricky to put it back as there were no guides to locate it correctly but I got there in the end. Now it works like new. Thank you.

No one repairs my car's (1997 Mercedes E420) non-displaying pixels but I noticed that simply putting pressure on the ribbon cable at point of attachment worked to a very limited extent. I suspected already that heat or pressure would work and now that I see it in this video, it makes perfect sense! Definitely worth a try, though I might have to come up with a method to know the temperature of the soldering tip. THANK YOU for this video. :-)

This gentleman gives a very clear explaination and excellent, understandable fix that even a non-tech person like me! Thank you!!

Thanks for this very instructive and thoughtfully-made electronics repair. Explanations with visual examples were very helpful in understanding the underlying concepts. I appreciate the care with which you demonstrated the repair, as well as additional applications. You earned my subscription! Please CONTINUE TO TEACH US VALUABLE LESSONS!

@MrFelatio1

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with your comment. This was the best explanation i could find on the internet and I have subscribed also.

This is easily one of the best how-to videos I've ever seen. Thank you!

It now works great! Thank you ShortcutElectronics for this easy to understand LCD screen repair! I'm a big fan.

Thank you for sharing this troubleshooting method on the repair of an LCD board. I'm about to try it on my fading pixel problem.

@isaiahurio2197

2 жыл бұрын

Did it work for you?

You are a hero: I just fixed the LCD.l display of a Gazelle E-Bike: the display uses a flex cable which was indeed loose at the display end. Heating this side of the cable with a soldering iron at 195°C worked perfectly I have a electronicly adjustable temperature on my soldering iron)

Thanks for this, my BMW screen is full of lines, a new lcd is 68 quid, def going to give it all a clean and reseat, worth a try, cheers for info

Excellent. 20 minutes to clean contacts and add three layers of tape top and bottom and works like new. Thanks.

Great video sir wish I had watched this in the 90’s so many electronics I could’ve fixed

Thank you for this informative video. This is very helpful to those with problems in the LCD display that could be fixed using the method you discussed here.

Thank you for this video! I was able to fix my Chronos Chess Clock's left panel display with your exact trick, with some tin foil and a TS100 soldering iron @ 200C, and it's perfect!!!!

thx to your experience and a few other youtube videos covering "Zebra" rubbery conductive contact strips (i had no idea such existed) that are used to connect circuit board contacts to LCD contacts and how to clean them - i was successfully able to restore my LCD display functioning on a very expensive race car digital dash display - cost $0 - just 10 minutes of my time and some research and patience

Well done. You explained this very well. Now I can fix my vintage calculator.

Thank you you reassured me that there are no other ways of them to fix those zebra connections or whatever connects to them

exactly the information I was looking for right now, thanks a lot!!!!

Very concise video. Thanks! I'm going to try this on a very old General Electric alarm clock that's been missing a few segments for years.

@MrFelatio1

2 жыл бұрын

Please give us the feedback if it worked out for you......

I had a hacked ghost box with no numbers showing besides the very first one.. I'm gonna give your idea a try.. :-) thanks either way, I for one appreciate that you showed this so clearly!

@shortcutelectronics

3 жыл бұрын

Thx for nice comment :)

Fantastic Well done. You explained this very well. Now I can try to fix my mini cooper 2002 missing digit. Great shortcuts and knowhow carry on you've earn my subscription too as I like to fix my own.

Thanks for the great video! Also thanks for not playing obnoxious music like some do!

Fantastic, thanks a lot for demonstrating the technique

Thank you very much for the information, I have tried and it works perfectly

100%Worked!The aluminum foil was a brilliant idea!Thank you very much!!!!!

Excellent video. Very helpful! Thank you.

Brilliant work! Your english is not perfect, but no problem! Since you speak clearly, i can understand every word! With your help, i will soon try to repair my motorcycles screen. It looks quite the same than the car at beginning. Only a bit worse.

Thanks for sharing these thoughts and solutions with us... It actually helped me a lot. Regards

@RFWMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, thank you. I agree with this comment !

Oh ,why not did i come on this video .i have seen 100 video of lcd replacing and correcting.all are doing the same ,replacing polarized film.even after replacing the polarized film ,the lcd actually does not giving the result ,so they do trial and error.so ,after ,i tired , just yesterday I decided to manipulate zebra strip which i was afraid to touch as i was not seen in any video about it.but i was sure this strip is the mani communication path.so i cleaned it and put it again.still it was not working.you cannot believe, i just put a hollow rectangular thick papper strip at periphery of the lcd frame so it pressure on lcd contact and zebra streap.it worked.so, actualy small trick works.after i slove it,i came to see this video just today.haaaa

très bon travail, j'ai appris plein de chose. merci

Good explanation, thanks for sharing

Whilst I could not completely cure my current problem with an FPC, I am fully prepared for the next one! Thank you.

I believe this will work on my screen. Thank you very much.

Thank you . even if it didn't fix, i know what to search for now

Great explaination, thank you! It helped me realy!

Good suggestion! I will try! Thank you so much

Thank you this was really helpful

Thanks for sharing... this video saved the display on my schwinn airdyne,,

Thank You, I'm never seen this method or repair the lcd. I hope is will work in my case;...-)

Good information. Thanks.

I appreciate n learn from you , thankyou sir

Very clear explanation

brilliant video. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing. Was wondering what if you apply some flux to the pins before soldering. Maybe it can improve the chance of better soldering connections

Brother you are KING! Thank you

Thank you for good instructional giude.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 great video, fantastic explanation 👍👍👍

thank you for this video, it is very good.

Very good! Congratulations!

Thanks, this helped a lot.

Interesting - thank you - particularly your experiments with reattaching flex cables using heat. I have a Powerbook 100 with Sharp LCD where a few lines of the LCD are sometimes dead. I solved it by including a cushion to press the flex cable against the LCD - which works most of the time as long as I don’t close and open the display! These are a chip-on-flex design where the driver chip is attached in the middle of the flex. I can’t tell if the poor connections are between the driver chip and the flex cable, or between the flex cable and the LCD. Perhaps the heat method will also work for reattaching the driver chip to the flex cable. I was thinking of using a 3D-printing hotend heat block (with heater cartridge) because of its block shape. But a soldering iron looks like it works just as well - I just think you need to apply the tip onto some sort of block or strip, to spread the heat while applying an even pressure (a round soldering iron tip doesn’t seem ideal). If anyone reading this has indeed re-attached a driver chip to a flex cable in a computer’s LCD, let me know :) Cheers

Nicely explained. Could you please help me with my Samsung AC Remote LCD and Zebra connector ? How can I stick zebra connector with LCD ?

I have fixed a lot of vintage LCD games like this.

Awesome... Great repair ... The second One.

Fantastic!!!! Thank you very much!!!!

thank you for this video... europeans has the most underrated videos ever.i subbed!

@AbDaniel21

4 жыл бұрын

besides pewdiepie

@jozseffarkas1767

3 жыл бұрын

@@AbDaniel21 who is pewpipi?

great video, I suscribed. The last trick with the calculator rarely worked for me. I wonder what could be done to fix this calculator without the FPC.

Great video! You should have fixed also the temperature display while you had the dashboard open

i really enjoyed this video i am not a repairer i was searching on youTube hoping to find a solution to a large quantity of PDA for scanning barcode that has bad screens. i am tempted to givea go now

좋은 기술 영상 감사합니다.

Thank you for posting, it is Exactly what I was looking for. A multimeter display appears to have the zebra connector loosely stuck to the LCD making it easier to reinstall. Is there a way to stick the zebra connector back to the LCD once you have cleaned it? Thank you

My car stereo has no display showing up, I'm going to try this!!

Thanks a lot! That was helpfull how to repair fpc! It work it, additional in add kapton tape

can you also show how to fix a faded lcd screen? because there are some lose segments in my lcd screen I can only see half of it because the other half is dead

Very cool video

Very useful

Great video

Thank you!

Really interesting video, it helps me to fix an old broken lcd display. I just would to ask (as I'm a beginner): is that an aluminium foil like the one used for food? Could I do that also with a soldering iron without a temperature control? Thank you so much.

@shortcutelectronics

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I used a regular aluminum foil. Nothing special there. You can try without temperature control, but in that case there is a lot more risk to damage the LCD connector if the temperature is too high. It could start to melt the connector.

@stevencrosato207

3 жыл бұрын

@@shortcutelectronics Thank you. I will think about it, before doing the wrong thing. Or maybe I can have a try using the soldering tool a little far, but I think, as you wrote, I should push it on the alu foil. And actually my cable is already welded to the board... just the display has a lot of lines/dead pixels. Anyway I will try it! Thanks for your reply.

Thanks so much!

Hi, what is the high of the connector you are using to fix the navman 3100?

I thought it was just a taped connector strip. I will try the heat process as a few of my calculators have lost the digits.

sir I have fluke 75 meter .I have no zebra strip metch .I want to connect LCD to board direct wire plz help

My cluster panel lcd screen of suzuki grand vitara 2011 is fading.. can it be fixed again?

I'm curious how the rubber strip comes into play to push display on LCD? Is there light shining through the rubber strip? Does the rubber strip have to be perfectly aligned with slots/holes on the strip and PCB? etc

i have a philips dolby and think it has a lcd and after a few hours work it looks like it dims and also the light seems to fading. can i do anything about this? its a htb-3520g

Thank you for your efforts very informative video, I have question about my car stereo LCD display, it works perfectly fine when start the car but after few minutes it starts fading and goes blank

@shortcutelectronics

Жыл бұрын

If your LCD display works fine when you start the car, I am pretty sure your problem is not related to the LCD itself, but the hardware of your stereo system. If it starts to fade, instead of just going blank in one moment, my guess is that something is wrong with the power supply. If the audio system works also when the screen goes blank, the problem should be in the part of the circuit that provides voltage/power to the display driver. If you could find and check the voltage that provides power to the LCD driver this might answer the question. One thing that you could do with limited knowledge in electronics is to look for swollen electrolytic capacitors and replace them since they do not hold the voltage when they go bad, but make sure that the polarity of the capacitor leads are correct when doing that. Second thing is to simply search " fading display problem" in google since there is a chance that this is a common problem for particular system and someone has already solved it. There's not much more I can help in this case.

EXCELLENT

great work sir !

You are great, thank you! Where you are from?

Thanks for the video. I have one question tho. Im trying to fix my ATV cluster witch is a LCD with zebra strip. The lcd screen had a film thay was brownish which i assume was the polarizing film but the glass had one in the front and on the back and i took both of them off with a knife and alchohol. Behind the glass is another splastic piece whick i assume is kind of like a back light but i had a white film on it which has bubbled. If i put new polarizing film on the lcd screen could it work again? I was thinking since it had two i guess i need to put them at different angles from each other to let light trough? Also the white film on the plastic piece, does it have a name? Can i take it off?

@shortcutelectronics

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry for late reply. About polarizers you are right. They need to be in a specific angle in order to work. It should be 90°. You can take 2 polarizers and just rotate them one in front and one in the back of the LCD and you should see how the LCD image changes. Of course the LCD should be ON while doing that.

@tnamen1307

3 жыл бұрын

@@shortcutelectronics sir please help me to fix this issue. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gHWDvKtroLyseNY.html

Gracias,muy bueno

@shortcutelectronics

4 жыл бұрын

Prego ;)

@tnamen1307

3 жыл бұрын

@@shortcutelectronics sir please help me to fix this issue. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gHWDvKtroLyseNY.html

how 1 can buy this liquid for cleaning lcd and zebra connector?

Parfait, merci👌🇫🇷

hi friend, ı purchased the ribbon cable from aliexpres help me please, this product is have paper backing, need to remove the paper ? or not directly soldering with paper. thanks for answer

not only does my Seimens A50 screen have no display at all but the screen seems to be "burned" if that makes any sense? If i put pressure on the screen then i get this array of green/red/purple colouring that looks like a bruise on the skin. Is the screen reparable or past all hope?.The phone itself works fine but of course i can neither compose texts or read the ones i recieve!!.

O is the tape of the lcd screen

Nice one

I have a casio g-shock that flashes some segments, not all the time, sometimes it works well, I think that water entered it and that was the problem, do you think that technique could work to repair it? PS What a good video, I thought that LCDs of that type no longer had repair.

@shortcutelectronics

4 жыл бұрын

If it has zebra connectors, this might work, because water might get between the zebra connector and connections of the Printed Circuit Board or the display connections. If it has the other type of connector in that case there still could be some water left that shortens some parts of the circuit and that messes up the signal. I think at first I would simply open the case and let it dry for some time. Maybe try to heat it up, but not too much. If that does not help, than go for some more drastic approach. P.S. I'm happy that you liked the video :)

@tnamen1307

3 жыл бұрын

@@shortcutelectronics sir please help me to fix this issue. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gHWDvKtroLyseNY.html

where do you find this tape? i ripped the LCD on my HP LCD.

Hi, Could you please help in fixing horizontal lines on backlit lcd LMG7380QHFC

Tnk you

If you can send a video tht my personal weighing machine's lcd becomes black but showing figure/number.

@peterwarn6931

2 жыл бұрын

You need to buy new and throw the old.

Can I still fix a fpc is it's teared or shorter than before?

And when you have the second problem in the first situation the same thing works ??

You`r geat !!

Thank you. Very helpful video.