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More info?)
Just don't poke your finger through the screen.
"Dwight Stewart" <stewartx@NOearthlinkSPAM.net> wrote in message
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> "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote:
>> Permanently black or permanently white. If you
>> have either, sometimes a small tap on the back
>> of the screen fixes it.
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> Another popular method is massaging the dead pixel with a finger. This
> involves covering the finger with cloth (such as a soft glove or soft
> cotton rag), gently pressing on the LCD display directly over the dead
> pixel, and rocking the finger in an up/down or side to side motion. I
> first read about this method several years ago and have used it twice to
> successfully fix dead pixels.
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> Stewart
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