My Slim PSP seems to have come down with something and I'm not entirely sure what the cause is or how to resolve it. I made a quick vid so that you can see the issue for yourself. For the sake of simplicity I'll just paste what I wrote about it on actual Youtube 'more info' section and link to the vid as well.
Quote:I don't know what caused it and I'm trying to find a way to remove/clear it off my screen. This started happening on my Silver Slim PSP (loaded with CFW 3.90 M33-2 at the time).
I had been using it just for playing MP3s and I noticed a vertical bar (about 2-3 pixels wide) on the screen that was causing a discoloration and offset. Over the course of about a month or 2, it's grown to the size in the video (about an inch of the right side of the screen is effected).
The video it's just showing crazy static, but if I leave the system still the static clears up and instead displays whatever's on the first inch of the screen from the left side.
I've tried reflashing the system completely with a Pandora battery and also upgrading the F/W to CFW 4.01, but it didn't seem to help.
I already know how to replace the LCD... I did some disassembly practice on my 2nd Fatty PSP. I need to verify when i bought this slim incase it's under some extended warranty or something (at work right now so I cant till tonight) before I rip it open. But I would like to see if it's something loose as Cee43ja1 suggested.
I'm still critical about this being entirely (if at all) a hardware issue, since (as I tried to explain)the distortion isn't completely static. It's sort of like on those old TVs or Monitors (back when VCRs were used) and you had to alter the 'tracking' to adjust the focus. Only it's confined to that inch on the right side of the screen.
To more thoroughly explain the symptoms, it originally started as just a vertical line about 2-3 pixels wide. It wasn't that gray color like in the vid, it was just offset (like it displayed clearly, but it was of pixels about half an inch elsewhere on the screen). Over the next month I noticed the width of the distortion growing.
During this time I wasn't playing the PSP directly, I was just using it for music while on the go.
It wasn't until this last week that I was thinking about playing something on it and noticed the level of growth of the distortion.
If the distorted area was showing nothing but solid color or snow, I'd believe right away that the lcd was damaged, but considering the level of care I've taken with my Slim (as well as my other 2 Piano Black PSPs which still work perfectly) and the fact that it still actively displays whatever's on-screen leads me to believe that it may be fixable w/o having to jump straight to hardware replacement.
