Comments on: Sigh… My Dash Looks Very Sick http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/2008/05/12/sigh-my-dash-looks-very-sick/ All Things Mobile and Wireless Sat, 11 May 2013 17:38:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: todd http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/2008/05/12/sigh-my-dash-looks-very-sick/comment-page-1/#comment-277945 todd Tue, 13 May 2008 08:48:41 +0000 http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/?p=774#comment-277945 Randy: Thanks for taking the time help me with this problem. The weather here has been pretty stable. It doesn’t seem like a structural issue though I won’t rule it out. A hard reset seems to have brought it back to normal. Of course, I have no idea how long this will last.

]]> By: Randy Smith http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/2008/05/12/sigh-my-dash-looks-very-sick/comment-page-1/#comment-276963 Randy Smith Mon, 12 May 2008 16:56:07 +0000 http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/?p=774#comment-276963 This may sound strange but has the weather changed a great deal lately? There may be a crack in a cold solder joint on one of the SMD (Surface Mount Devices). For devices that do not generate a lot of internal heat changes in weather like hot or cold and even humidity can cause the crack to grow causing all kinds of problems that can often be very hard to track down.

The problem does not get much better even if you find the defective joint, a regular soldering iron can kill an SMD in Nanoseconds is applied incorrectly.

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