What probably happens is that the polymers degrade. The digitizer is plastic which happens if it’s hot, or in combination of UV light and Oxygen. There also is plastic in the screens
@@boshi9 People have been doing something called a retrobrite. It is with the use of Hydrogenperoxide and UV light it starts a chemical reaction that reverses the yellowing
2:07 You should also try peeling the LCD layers off, it peels off like an onion. I peeled off mine and replaced the polarizer (beats paying $20 aftermarket screen), it's not glued in unlike those DMG gameboy. Apparently, the top polarizer was the only damaged part (yellow+circular shape) and there was also mold in between one of the clear ones. Cut the polarizer to size and clean with water, dry it and it was good as new! WARNING: DON'T CLEAN WITH ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL, it will damage the plastic. Just use WATER. I don't see many youtube videos teaching that so you could make a video out of it.
I recently did some experimenting with these, and this solution seem to coincide with my findings: I have 4 subjects, the one that looks most worn out is the the whitest i have, while the one with a broken hinge and basically no wear on the buttons is the worse worse, other 2 follow a similar pattern, i ended up sacrificing the lower screen of said "worst one", because i was under the assumption it was a plastic layer inside the screen that was yellowing, this was false, no layer showed signs of yellowing when put in front of another backlight, therefore, my conclusion is that the blue sub-pixels themselves seem to have gotten weaker over a long period of no use, making a solution like this very plausible.
Hope it’s possible to de-blue a New Nintendo 3DS screen! If not, any professional repair folk in the South East of England able to replace the screen? I don’t mind if the replacement screen isn’t IPS, I only care about whether or not the colors display correctly.
You should replace the top DS lite screen. To Jake64, I noticed the top DS lite screen in your video is glitching. Can you do a youtube video on replacing the top DS lite screen, because it's broken and glitchy. Let me know if you're interested in replacing the broken screen, I'm fixing my sister's DS lite screen. And keep in mind you will need triwing screwdriver and 4 way screwdriver and soldering iron for the speaker wires to top screen ribbon cable.
Yeah, as a monitor calibrator, I would never recommend running a screen on its max brightness for weeks. That's really bad. If someone has a yellow screen, I do NOT recommend doing this whatsoever.
These screens aren't drawing a ton of current or producing a whole lot of heat. That's probably why it took a month and still didn't do a whole lot. Whatever small amount of heat (or light?) energy it was emitting was probably enough to cause the reaction. I believe the backlight had gone to LED by this point too? But yeah something like some crazy high power modern LCD beaming out 1000 nits for weeks on end is probably not good for the backlight, and whatever else might be sensitive to the heat. :p
Probably just leave it on the health & safety screen, or if there's an image viewer that can span both screens, loading up a 256x384 image of all white would do.
What probably happens is that the polymers degrade. The digitizer is plastic which happens if it’s hot, or in combination of UV light and Oxygen. There also is plastic in the screens
Wouldn't that typically be an irreversible process though? Plus it yellows when the device is not use, i.e. not exposed to a lot of UV and heat.
@@boshi9 People have been doing something called a retrobrite. It is with the use of Hydrogenperoxide and UV light it starts a chemical reaction that reverses the yellowing
My Game Boy Micro came a little yellowed. I left it on max brightness for about 3 hours and the yellowing was mostly gone. Glad this was discovered
same here I was pretty concerned but glad this ideally fixed it.
I'm pretty sure the top screen is de-laminating, that's why the black spots looks like they are moving.
Normally the yellowing on Ds lite’s is caused by a single layer inside of the screen, I don’t think the digitizer normally yellows
It dont, i am refirbishing DS lites and all the screens were yellow, none of the lenses and digitizers were causing it.
Nice! Good to know.
2:07
You should also try peeling the LCD layers off, it peels off like an onion.
I peeled off mine and replaced the polarizer (beats paying $20 aftermarket screen), it's not glued in unlike those DMG gameboy.
Apparently, the top polarizer was the only damaged part (yellow+circular shape) and there was also mold in between one of the clear ones.
Cut the polarizer to size and clean with water, dry it and it was good as new!
WARNING: DON'T CLEAN WITH ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL, it will damage the plastic. Just use WATER.
I don't see many youtube videos teaching that so you could make a video out of it.
Where did you get the Polarizer?
@@PotatoHunts
Any lcd polarizer can work. Just need to cut to size.
I recently did some experimenting with these, and this solution seem to coincide with my findings: I have 4 subjects, the one that looks most worn out is the the whitest i have, while the one with a broken hinge and basically no wear on the buttons is the worse worse, other 2 follow a similar pattern, i ended up sacrificing the lower screen of said "worst one", because i was under the assumption it was a plastic layer inside the screen that was yellowing, this was false, no layer showed signs of yellowing when put in front of another backlight, therefore, my conclusion is that the blue sub-pixels themselves seem to have gotten weaker over a long period of no use, making a solution like this very plausible.
If it's blue sub pixels I wonder if running them on blue screens would be faster then white?
I had the same conclusion after buying used DS's and seeing them get whiter over time. I was thinking I was hallucinating till i saw this video.
There should be some homebrew somewhere that just keeps a white screen 😂
or play a pokemon game and take the cartridge out, boom. white screens on both screens
Hope it’s possible to de-blue a New Nintendo 3DS screen! If not, any professional repair folk in the South East of England able to replace the screen? I don’t mind if the replacement screen isn’t IPS, I only care about whether or not the colors display correctly.
If it’s the bottom screen I would just repair it myself if I was you, if it’s in the top prob need to send it in.
Very cool video, keep up the good work, my friend.
You should replace the top DS lite screen.
To Jake64, I noticed the top DS lite screen in your video is glitching. Can you do a youtube video on replacing the top DS lite screen, because it's broken and glitchy. Let me know if you're interested in replacing the broken screen, I'm fixing my sister's DS lite screen. And keep in mind you will need triwing screwdriver and 4 way screwdriver and soldering iron for the speaker wires to top screen ribbon cable.
I have the idea especially screens from Japan are quite yellow. Might take the plunge!
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nice. gonna try that.
Super interesting video.
Yeah, as a monitor calibrator, I would never recommend running a screen on its max brightness for weeks. That's really bad. If someone has a yellow screen, I do NOT recommend doing this whatsoever.
These screens aren't drawing a ton of current or producing a whole lot of heat. That's probably why it took a month and still didn't do a whole lot. Whatever small amount of heat (or light?) energy it was emitting was probably enough to cause the reaction. I believe the backlight had gone to LED by this point too? But yeah something like some crazy high power modern LCD beaming out 1000 nits for weeks on end is probably not good for the backlight, and whatever else might be sensitive to the heat. :p
Do you mind explaining why?
Dead pixels top screen 😊
Nice!
The same thing happens to the PSP
There should be some homebrew somewhere that just keeps a white screen 😂
Shouldn't be too difficult...? I'll have to check that out
Probably just leave it on the health & safety screen, or if there's an image viewer that can span both screens, loading up a 256x384 image of all white would do.
No need. Just try and boot a retail game with hbmenu... Easy White Screen simulator. :P