Cracked the LCD on my mp3 player..

[modedepe]

I recently got an iRiver iHp-120 (new) off ebay, since I've been wanting to try one out for a while. Anyways, yesterday I took it with me to school as usual to listen to during my bike ride. Well, after returning home I found the damn screen was cracked. Text

Of course I'm really pissed about this, especially since I only had it for about two weeks. I'm not even sure how this happened, since I had it in my pocket the entire time. I assume you have to apply quite a bit of pressure to the screen for this to occur? Is this common with mp3 players? I guess I'll be going back to use my iAudio m3 for a while. At least with it there's no screen on the player for me to break.

Edit: Oops, probably should have stuck this in peripherals..

 

[Choralone]

That kind of crack can happen to ANY type of LCD. Yes, you would need a fair amount of pressure to do that, but you'd be surprised how easily some LCD's break.

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: Choralone
That kind of crack can happen to ANY type of LCD. Yes, you would need a fair amount of pressure to do that, but you'd be surprised how easily some LCD's break.

Actually, many LCDs are in cases actually engineered PROPERLY. iRiver usually does their's proper, but this unit is probably not if a back-pack trip did it. Pressure from the outside should not apply to the screen unless it was enough to puncture the cover or plastic surrounding it.

My friend's SlimX stopped spinning when it was still a $200 player. They still don't make their standard flash players charge through USB. They use proprietary applications for MP3 transfer. The use proprietary cables for the iRiver H10 (The deal-breaker for me). They have many faults.

Anyway, if iRiver were anything like Nintendo, they'd probably replace it but I imagine that you'll probably have to buy a broken/display unit off eBay for parts.

 

[Taejin]

Originally posted by: modedepe
I recently got an iRiver iHp-120 (new) off ebay, since I've been wanting to try one out for a while. Anyways, yesterday I took it with me to school as usual to listen to during my bike ride. Well, after returning home I found the damn screen was cracked. Text

Of course I'm really pissed about this, especially since I only had it for about two weeks. I'm not even sure how this happened, since I had it in my pocket the entire time. I assume you have to apply quite a bit of pressure to the screen for this to occur? Is this common with mp3 players? I guess I'll be going back to use my iAudio m3 for a while. At least with it there's no screen on the player for me to break.

Edit: Oops, probably should have stuck this in peripherals..

This is a fairly common problem with iHP-120s.

Because the screen covering the LCD isn't hard glass..heh. You need to have it in your pocket facing YOU, not outside, otherwise any sharp edge you bump into will shove itself into your screen and crack the LCD. I would suggest trying to RMA it, saying that discoloration appeared spontaneously or something.

 

[corkyg]

This is all a great commercial for a metal case accessory. That is one of my concerns about the new iPod Nano - they are so thin that they have little resistence to bending under the pressure of a back pack or a pants pocket. Thin glass doesn't bend willingly.

 

[Gatecrusher]

Hey Are the OLED screens more resilient to breaking? i think so... that might be the way to go/

 

[modedepe]

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: Choralone
That kind of crack can happen to ANY type of LCD. Yes, you would need a fair amount of pressure to do that, but you'd be surprised how easily some LCD's break.

Actually, many LCDs are in cases actually engineered PROPERLY. iRiver usually does their's proper, but this unit is probably not if a back-pack trip did it. Pressure from the outside should not apply to the screen unless it was enough to puncture the cover or plastic surrounding it.

My friend's SlimX stopped spinning when it was still a $200 player. They still don't make their standard flash players charge through USB. They use proprietary applications for MP3 transfer. The use proprietary cables for the iRiver H10 (The deal-breaker for me). They have many faults.

Anyway, if iRiver were anything like Nintendo, they'd probably replace it but I imagine that you'll probably have to buy a broken/display unit off eBay for parts.

Yeah, that's how I thought it should be, with the covering protecting the actual LCD screen. I guess this would explain why I had seen some other 120's on ebay with bad screens, I never though much about it though before. I've contacted iRiver, I might be able to RMA it. If not, then yeah, I plan to probably get one for parts, assuming I can find it cheap enough.