There's some dark text starting at the O in "Uncle Bob" and ending at about "05/12". There also looks to be a dark line spanning the entire screen that starts about 15 pixels below the text at the top.
Any idea what game this would have been from?
Title: Re: DSi Screen burn in?
Post by: UncleBob on May 13, 2010, 11:11:27 AM
Oh, it's from Picross 3D. It reads "Level 9_C" and has the full pause screen on - on both screens.
It's *mostly* gone away now (perhaps will go away more when I play it some more)...
Title: Re: DSi Screen burn in?
Post by: vudu on May 13, 2010, 11:26:09 AM
Did you leave your system on pause for an extended period of time without closing the lid? Or do you just suck at Picross 3D?
Title: Re: DSi Screen burn in?
Post by: UncleBob on May 13, 2010, 11:35:43 AM
Left it on. The battery was dying, so I plugged it in to charge for a few (just long enough to finish the puzzle I was on) - then promptly forgot about it.
Title: Re: DSi Screen burn in?
Post by: vudu on May 13, 2010, 11:39:23 AM
If you want my advice you should have closed the lid. :-\
Title: Re: DSi Screen burn in?
Post by: UncleBob on May 13, 2010, 11:42:03 AM
Well, yeah!
But I was expecting to come back to it shortly. And I *wasn't* expecting burn in. I didn't even know LCDs could do that any more. Lord knows my cell phone has never had that problem.
Title: Re: DSi Screen burn in?
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 13, 2010, 11:46:17 AM
Do you have a game or a video that you can play on the DSi that cycles through lots of colors quickly over the full screen?
or does that only work for stuck pixels?
Title: Re: DSi Screen burn in?
Post by: Hyrulian Guard on June 28, 2010, 07:48:37 AM
never saw that before, only a fading image after i turn it off. people just don't use the sleep mode on the ds. I hear people saying that dundeon was so long, didnt want to save and go thru it all again.
Duh! put it in a pause state, shut the lid, and come back later.
Title: Re: DSi Screen burn in?
Post by: Pale on June 28, 2010, 12:48:14 PM
I doubt this is actual traditional burn-in because it's an LCD. It could be heat related. Was your house or room where it was plugged in extra hot? Have you let the system totally cool down since then and were the markings still there?
I had a similar freak out for my iMac screen a few months ago and realized it was just heat because i had it stuff back in a cubby too much. Letting the system totally cool down before turning it back on solved the problem.
Title: Re: DSi Screen burn in?
Post by: Hyrulian Guard on July 02, 2010, 09:05:56 PM
I thought burn in couldn't happen with an LCD . Where I work we have cell phones that log time and they 99% of the time have one screen with the same borders and labels on and they have an after image . But they are always on and after a year u get this image when on different screen. But that's not what he's saying.
Title: Re: DSi Screen burn in?
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 02, 2010, 10:02:00 PM
Technically LCD screens can't "burn in", but they can suffer a similar effect where the liquid crystals can get used to the state of twist they are in and cause a static image. Most of the time the damage can be undone by leaving the TV off for about a day. It's explained here: http://www.techlore.com/article/10099/Do-LCD-TVs-Burn-In-/
