PSP Stuck Pixel Fixer!!!! WOOOT!!! (well.. for 60% of you that is)

Tipstaff · Jun 10, 2005, 03:31 AM

I'm only going to link to the article I posted in the "PSP Hints and Tips" thread as this particular tip is very important to those that have dead pixel issues with your PSP. I figured that the thread has gotten so huge that people might miss it, plus.. my name is always being shown as the last one to post something, so people might think nothing new is really being said. At any rate, be sure to check it out if you have said issues.

PSP Stuck Pixel Fixer!!!! WOOOT!!! (well.. for 60% of you that is)

Hope this works out for you peeps that have dead pixels.

-Tip

***Zardon*** · Jun 10, 2005, 03:43 AM

fascinating !

quakerjtf · Jun 10, 2005, 04:00 AM

I don't have a PSP, but that is a great idea. You should be rewarded by sony for thinking of it.

Tipstaff · Jun 10, 2005, 04:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by quakerjtf

I don't have a PSP, but that is a great idea. You should be rewarded by sony for thinking of it.

Not me.. the guy that created it: Nick Toohill. Bloody brilliant.

I remember seeing mention of this for LCD TVs and LCD monitors a couple months back... never even dawned on me to try it on the PSP.

This did work on my unit though. Took about an hour for it to kick in. Right now I'm running it on a friends unit, but it's been going for 2 hours.. no luck yet. I'll probably leave one of my small MS Duos with the guys at my local EB for them to try on customers units. See what type of success they get from it.

The author of the file added a white and black still image for checking dead pixels, but I would like it if he added one for each of the colors. That way you could tell if a pixel was displaying each color properly without having to stare at a flashing image. With mine with the pixel displaying yellow instead of white, so if it did a still image of each color I would probably have realized that the pixels kicked in sooner. Plus, I wouldn't need to use the Dead Pixel Checker JPEGs to figure it out either.

quakerjtf · Jun 10, 2005, 05:09 AM

Yeah, but you brought it over to PSP. Hope you have some good success spreading it.

Sandok · Jun 10, 2005, 09:52 AM

didn't work for my PSP

Left it running about 15 minutes... Battery was running low but I doubt leaving it on for more would have changed anything

***Zardon*** · Jun 10, 2005, 09:55 AM

worked on my mates, took his 8 hours.

Sandok · Jun 10, 2005, 10:05 AM

8 hours... lol okay i'll try again, just leave it on all night

gangsterant16 · Jun 10, 2005, 07:29 PM

im tryin it rite now i've had it on so far since lets say 4:10pm and its 7:28 so thats 3 hours and 20 mins imma leave it till tomorrow morning

Tipstaff · Jun 11, 2005, 01:27 AM

I've litterally got 5 PSPs running in my house as I type this. I had 7, but the this fix corrected 2 of the systems in about 1 hour, and 3 hours respectively. So far the other 5 are being stubborn. I also used this on another system, and let it run for 24hours straight, but no luck on it.

As I mentioned, it may or may not work. That's why the percentage rate is just above 50/50. Just set it up to run in Zoom or Full screen mode, set it on repeat, and walk away. It can take mins, or it can take hours. You just have to read Zardons post to see that it can work.

BTW: This video was tried on a system that had 1 complete dead row and 1 complete dead column of pixels. Now it works perfectly.

Hey, you got nothing to lose by trying... 'cept that you might further strengthen your intense feelings of anger towards Sony for using cheap @$$ screens.

pr0digal jenius · Jun 11, 2005, 01:38 AM

That's really cool.....may hafta port that to DVD and take it to work and cause a few seizures in the tech department

Sandok · Jun 11, 2005, 01:55 AM

it might just be my imaginatoin but this created dead pixels... is that even possible? That it erased the memory on some working pixels? God damn it... 14 hours and no go! Just made it worse

gangsterant16 · Jun 11, 2005, 06:52 AM

well its 7 in the morning where i live and i left on since 4 in the afternoon yesterday and still no help damn i have this stupid little red pixel that stays red and doesn't go away ever and i have a white one on the top but u can't notice that one so don't matter but the red one damn i mean it don't even change colors ever it's just always red!!!! imma keep on leavin it running hopefully it fixes oh god please fix that pixel! lol

Sandok · Jun 11, 2005, 04:02 PM

well tell me if it works... all i know is that after this thing, i've noticed many more dead pixels than bvefore.... is it even possible that they were created or have they always been there and I never noticed? Anyone shed some light?

gangsterant16 · Jun 11, 2005, 05:00 PM

well i left it on for exactly 25 hours and shit didn't work im mad but at well i guess imma have that stupid red dot there for ever the piece of shit pixel... i doubt that one of ur pixels broke but its possible who noes

Tipstaff · Jun 11, 2005, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sandok

it might just be my imaginatoin but this created dead pixels... is that even possible? That it erased the memory on some working pixels? God damn it... 14 hours and no go! Just made it worse

I've yet to encounter this. I guess it is possible as the video is forcing the pixels to turn off and on rapidly. However, I would assume the pixel would have to have been close to dying, or only partially functioning in the first place for it to completely die. I've run this on about 10 PSPs so far. 3 were no goes, the other 7 worked including mine. I've seen countless others posting about success, and no success, but yours is the first I've seen that has mentioned it making the system worse than better. I'm going to have to watch out for this.

I did have one funny thing happen though. It did work on one PSP, however it only lasted for short period of time. When I tried running the jpegs to check out the pixels they suddenly went out on me. It's almost like it lost it's charge or something. Kinda wierd, and only happend just on that particular PSP.

Which reminds me, if you haven't already run the series of Jpegs that was created for checking for dead pixels. You can get that HERE still. Just be sure of the state of your pixels. In my case I had one that displayed yellow instead of white, as well as no blue. Although you could see, plain as day that it wasn't displaying pure blue, you couldn't tell that it was dead otherwise.

At any rate, a couple things to note. This was originally a DVD made for LCD TVs, and was ported over for use on the PSP. Also, if the dead pixels haven't switched on within 24hours there really is no point, at least in my opinion, in continuing to run the video. Up to you though.

Edit: 06-11-05 - (I'm reposting what I added in the Hints and Tips thread) I'm just going to edit this a bit. From what I can tell the success rate is more higher for PSPs that have "Stuck" pixels, ones that continuously display 1 color, than it does on PSPs with "dead" pixels. That's not to say it won't work on dead pixeled units, but just that you shouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work, or takes longer to get it to work. Plus, if the pixel hasn't become active within 24hours of running the video then it's probably not going to come on. Your call though.

digitalwanderer · Jun 11, 2005, 07:31 PM

Thanks! I have no dead pixels, but I bookmarked the link for future reference.

gangsterant16 · Jun 11, 2005, 08:38 PM

well i guess mine is a stuck pixel its so gay man its always red on the bottom left corner its very annoying at times!!! i wish it would had work damn i have shitty luck

Sandok · Jun 12, 2005, 12:50 AM

Well mine are just white... Dunno I never notice em ever ingame no matter how dark thhe game is... I've done it for about 14 hours, I'll try 24 today and then well, voilà, if still nothing there we go!

Tipstaff · Jun 13, 2005, 03:38 AM

Idiot me. Everytime I've done a post on this I keep saying "dead" pixels... I don't know why either.. just slow this week, I guess. So, just to fix my screw ups... this will not fix dead pixels. Sorry for my hype on that.

So, this should work on "Stuck" pixels, but that's no garauntee that it will. However, those that have "dead" pixels take note: just because it looks dead doesn't mean that it is. Here's why: it could be "stuck" on black. Remember, RGB colors 0,0,0 is black. So, the pixel could be stuck on the color black, and not actually dead (or off). Big difference. Knowing that, even if you have what appears to be a dead pixel give this a shot anyways as it may not be dead. Again, use the pixel checker I've mentioned as there is a black range to test. Then decide for yourself if you want to try it or not.

gangsterant16 · Jun 13, 2005, 05:40 PM

wats a dead pixel or a stuck pixel, i have 3 one thats always 1, one that is multicolor and one that is bright red one, u can c all of them on black screen but red shows on all of them its very annoying i how do i tell if its dead or stuck help?? lol

digerati · Jun 14, 2005, 01:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gangsterant16

wats a dead pixel or a stuck pixel, i have 3 one thats always 1, one that is multicolor and one that is bright red one, u can c all of them on black screen but red shows on all of them its very annoying i how do i tell if its dead or stuck help?? lol

I believe dead pixels are pixels that failed to activate and cannot be activated at all so they're just plain dead. These show up as plain black.

Stuck pixels are pixels that activated but got stuck a certain color like blue, green, red, or white. There may be stuck pixels that are stuck as black, or they could just be dead pixels. Unless it gets unstuck, you'll never know the difference.

gangsterant16 · Jun 14, 2005, 03:49 PM

i guess mine is stuck cause its plain red grrr

bstef9950 · Aug 11, 2005, 10:08 PM

I just bought a PSp,I've alway's liked good hanhelds all the way back to the atari Lynx,i do not have any pixels out yet but i also bookmarked the site with the download.Great idea.

lindab · Sep 4, 2005, 09:58 PM

hey does anybody have to same video but not an mp4 file???

md5 · Sep 4, 2005, 10:57 PM

Can it also revive "stuck" pixels on TFTs?

pr0digal jenius · Sep 4, 2005, 11:03 PM

http://www.nata2.info/humor/flash/rgb.swf

there's a seizure inducing flash .swf file that does similiar things.

md5 · Sep 4, 2005, 11:07 PM

Quote:

there's a seizure inducing flash .swf file that does similiar things.

bwahahahaha

priceless

pr0digal jenius · Sep 4, 2005, 11:08 PM

well, in theory it would work on a TFT, i would think

Tipstaff · Sep 6, 2005, 01:45 AM

It will work on TFTs too. In fact the MP4 file was created from the DVD that technicians use to fix LCD TV sets. As long as you have the codec for it you can run it no problem. I've used this on laptops and a couple LCD monitors. Just move the window for the flasher over the spot that has the bad pixel. As with the PSP it's not garuanteed to work though.

Jun 10, 2005, 03:31 AM	#1
Tipstaff DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Real capital of Canada: Toronto Posts: 5,529 Rep Power: 94 System Specs	PSP Stuck Pixel Fixer!!!! WOOOT!!! (well.. for 60% of you that is) I'm only going to link to the article I posted in the "PSP Hints and Tips" thread as this particular tip is very important to those that have dead pixel issues with your PSP. I figured that the thread has gotten so huge that people might miss it, plus.. my name is always being shown as the last one to post something, so people might think nothing new is really being said. At any rate, be sure to check it out if you have said issues. PSP Stuck Pixel Fixer!!!! WOOOT!!! (well.. for 60% of you that is) Hope this works out for you peeps that have dead pixels. -Tip __________________ >><<

Jun 10, 2005, 04:00 AM	#3
quakerjtf DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 378 Rep Power: 0	I don't have a PSP, but that is a great idea. You should be rewarded by sony for thinking of it. __________________ http://www.amd.com

Jun 10, 2005, 05:09 AM	#5
quakerjtf DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 378 Rep Power: 0	Yeah, but you brought it over to PSP. Hope you have some good success spreading it. __________________ http://www.amd.com

Jun 10, 2005, 07:29 PM	#9
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	im tryin it rite now i've had it on so far since lets say 4:10pm and its 7:28 so thats 3 hours and 20 mins imma leave it till tomorrow morning __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Jun 11, 2005, 01:27 AM	#10
Tipstaff DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Real capital of Canada: Toronto Posts: 5,529 Rep Power: 94 System Specs	I've litterally got 5 PSPs running in my house as I type this. I had 7, but the this fix corrected 2 of the systems in about 1 hour, and 3 hours respectively. So far the other 5 are being stubborn. I also used this on another system, and let it run for 24hours straight, but no luck on it. As I mentioned, it may or may not work. That's why the percentage rate is just above 50/50. Just set it up to run in Zoom or Full screen mode, set it on repeat, and walk away. It can take mins, or it can take hours. You just have to read Zardons post to see that it can work. BTW: This video was tried on a system that had 1 complete dead row and 1 complete dead column of pixels. Now it works perfectly. Hey, you got nothing to lose by trying... 'cept that you might further strengthen your intense feelings of anger towards Sony for using cheap @$$ screens. __________________ >><<

Jun 10, 2005, 03:43 AM	#2
*Zardon* enchanted Join Date: May 2002 Location: Driverheaven Posts: 32,258 Rep Power: 3150	fascinating !

Jun 10, 2005, 09:52 AM	#6
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,501 Rep Power: 53	didn't work for my PSP Left it running about 15 minutes... Battery was running low but I doubt leaving it on for more would have changed anything

Jun 10, 2005, 09:55 AM	#7
*Zardon* enchanted Join Date: May 2002 Location: Driverheaven Posts: 32,258 Rep Power: 3150	worked on my mates, took his 8 hours.

Jun 10, 2005, 10:05 AM	#8
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,501 Rep Power: 53	8 hours... lol okay i'll try again, just leave it on all night

Jun 11, 2005, 01:38 AM	#11
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,672 Rep Power: 0	That's really cool.....may hafta port that to DVD and take it to work and cause a few seizures in the tech department

Jun 11, 2005, 01:55 AM	#12
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,501 Rep Power: 53	it might just be my imaginatoin but this created dead pixels... is that even possible? That it erased the memory on some working pixels? God damn it... 14 hours and no go! Just made it worse

Jun 11, 2005, 06:52 AM	#13
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	well its 7 in the morning where i live and i left on since 4 in the afternoon yesterday and still no help damn i have this stupid little red pixel that stays red and doesn't go away ever and i have a white one on the top but u can't notice that one so don't matter but the red one damn i mean it don't even change colors ever it's just always red!!!! imma keep on leavin it running hopefully it fixes oh god please fix that pixel! lol __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Jun 11, 2005, 04:02 PM	#14
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,501 Rep Power: 53	well tell me if it works... all i know is that after this thing, i've noticed many more dead pixels than bvefore.... is it even possible that they were created or have they always been there and I never noticed? Anyone shed some light?

Jun 11, 2005, 05:00 PM	#15
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	well i left it on for exactly 25 hours and shit didn't work im mad but at well i guess imma have that stupid red dot there for ever the piece of shit pixel... i doubt that one of ur pixels broke but its possible who noes __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Jun 11, 2005, 07:31 PM	#17
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,621 Rep Power: 0	Thanks! I have no dead pixels, but I bookmarked the link for future reference. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Jun 11, 2005, 08:38 PM	#18
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	well i guess mine is a stuck pixel its so gay man its always red on the bottom left corner its very annoying at times!!! i wish it would had work damn i have shitty luck __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Jun 12, 2005, 12:50 AM	#19
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,501 Rep Power: 53	Well mine are just white... Dunno I never notice em ever ingame no matter how dark thhe game is... I've done it for about 14 hours, I'll try 24 today and then well, voilà, if still nothing there we go!

Jun 13, 2005, 03:38 AM	#20
Tipstaff DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Real capital of Canada: Toronto Posts: 5,529 Rep Power: 94 System Specs	I'm such a dufuss Idiot me. Everytime I've done a post on this I keep saying "dead" pixels... I don't know why either.. just slow this week, I guess. So, just to fix my screw ups... this will not fix dead pixels. Sorry for my hype on that. So, this should work on "Stuck" pixels, but that's no garauntee that it will. However, those that have "dead" pixels take note: just because it looks dead doesn't mean that it is. Here's why: it could be "stuck" on black. Remember, RGB colors 0,0,0 is black. So, the pixel could be stuck on the color black, and not actually dead (or off). Big difference. Knowing that, even if you have what appears to be a dead pixel give this a shot anyways as it may not be dead. Again, use the pixel checker I've mentioned as there is a black range to test. Then decide for yourself if you want to try it or not. __________________ >><<

Jun 13, 2005, 05:40 PM	#21
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	wats a dead pixel or a stuck pixel, i have 3 one thats always 1, one that is multicolor and one that is bright red one, u can c all of them on black screen but red shows on all of them its very annoying i how do i tell if its dead or stuck help?? lol __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Jun 14, 2005, 03:49 PM	#23
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	i guess mine is stuck cause its plain red grrr __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Aug 11, 2005, 10:08 PM	#24
bstef9950 -=[DHzer0point Team]=- Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Chicago,IL Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	I just bought a PSp,I've alway's liked good hanhelds all the way back to the atari Lynx,i do not have any pixels out yet but i also bookmarked the site with the download.Great idea. __________________

Sep 4, 2005, 09:58 PM	#25
lindab DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	hey does anybody have to same video but not an mp4 file???

Sep 4, 2005, 10:57 PM	#26
md5 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Inside DriverHeaven Posts: 856 Rep Power: 32	Can it also revive "stuck" pixels on TFTs? __________________

Sep 4, 2005, 11:03 PM	#27
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,672 Rep Power: 0	http://www.nata2.info/humor/flash/rgb.swf there's a seizure inducing flash .swf file that does similiar things.

Sep 4, 2005, 11:08 PM	#29
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,672 Rep Power: 0	well, in theory it would work on a TFT, i would think

Sep 6, 2005, 01:45 AM	#30
Tipstaff DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Real capital of Canada: Toronto Posts: 5,529 Rep Power: 94 System Specs	It will work on TFTs too. In fact the MP4 file was created from the DVD that technicians use to fix LCD TV sets. As long as you have the codec for it you can run it no problem. I've used this on laptops and a couple LCD monitors. Just move the window for the flasher over the spot that has the bad pixel. As with the PSP it's not garuanteed to work though. __________________ >><<

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