Screen Switches On/Off When Tapped

Hello! I’ve just received and assembled my uConsole and I’ve noticed that the screen is flickering (switching on/off with an audible pop/click sound) whenever the device is tapped. For example, placing it down on a table will cause it to flicker. Tapping the screen itself gently will always cause the issue. Aside from that the uConsole works great.

I first suspected that the ribbon cable wasn’t correctly seated, but on closer inspection that doesn’t seem to be the case. Has anyone else had this issue, or perhaps I’ve made some rookie error in assembly?

Thanks for your help!

That’s definitely not right, try reseating the ribbon cable a few times just to be sure but sounds like a bad connection in the panel.

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Update for anyone else who has the same issue - it was indeed a rookie error. I hadn’t pushed the core all the way down into the mainboard and it had sprung back up out of the clips. I guess it was rocking on impact and the contacts were being briefly broken. I started having other strange errors and, once I’d ensured it was firmly clipped all the way down, they disappeared.

Thanks for the sanity check on this Rex.

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