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rPi 3.5" TFT DOA

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I think my 3.5" TFT display is DOA. I tried it using the quick install method on 2 different rPi's, and all I get is a backlit white screen.

I tried it on the latest version of Raspbian, and an older version, but no go. I forget which combination it was, but the rPi wouldn't even boot after the script was installed.

Any ideas? Any eta on a version that works with the newest version of Raspbian? On the Rpi 2 B?

Thanks.

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Re: rPi 3.5" TFT DOA

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Please post the output of sudo dmesg
Post a clear picture of the bottom of the display board.

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Re: rPi 3.5" TFT DOA

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Image
Sorry, that is the best I could do for the photo


pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo dmesg
[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.12.26+ (ladyada@ladyada-VirtualBox) (gcc version 4.4.7 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.7-1ubuntu2) ) #7 PREEMPT Wed Sep 17 14:25:24 EDT 2014
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv6-compatible processor [410fb767] revision 7 (ARMv7), cr=00c5387d
[ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine: BCM2708
[ 0.000000] cma: CMA: reserved 8 MiB at 0b800000
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 49152
[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c0670468, node_mem_map c0721000
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 384 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 49152 pages, LIFO batch:15
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 48768
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: dma.dmachans=0x7f35 bcm2708_fb.fbwidth=656 bcm2708_fb.fbheight=416 bcm2708.boardrev=0x2 bcm2708.serial=0xa0df5918 smsc95xx.macaddr=B8:27:EB:DF:59:18 sdhci-bcm2708.emmc_clock_freq=250000000 vc_mem.mem_base=0xec00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x10000000 dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait fbcon=map:10 fbcon=font:VGA8x8
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 179308K/196608K available (4815K kernel code, 243K rwdata, 1352K rodata, 146K init, 701K bss, 17300K reserved)
[ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.000000] vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
[ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000 ( 896 kB)
[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xcc800000 - 0xff000000 ( 808 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xcc000000 ( 192 MB)
[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc060dee4 (6168 kB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc060e000 - 0xc0632a44 ( 147 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc0634000 - 0xc0670d60 ( 244 kB)
[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc0670d6c - 0xc0720228 ( 702 kB)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:394
[ 0.000000] sched_clock: 32 bits at 1000kHz, resolution 1000ns, wraps every 4294967ms
[ 0.000000] Switching to timer-based delay loop
[ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 0.000000] console [tty1] enabled
[ 0.001254] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 2.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=10000)
[ 0.001319] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.001763] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 0.002550] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[ 0.002660] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 0.002701] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 0.002737] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio
[ 0.002873] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.003388] Setting up static identity map for 0xc04965e0 - 0xc049663c
[ 0.005304] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.021544] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 1 part 20 variant b rev 5
[ 0.023167] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.028483] DMA: preallocated 4096 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[ 0.029184] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 0.029234] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 0.029682] bcm2708.uart_clock = 0
[ 0.031756] hw-breakpoint: found 6 breakpoint and 1 watchpoint registers.
[ 0.031821] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 4 bytes.
[ 0.031859] mailbox: Broadcom VideoCore Mailbox driver
[ 0.031962] bcm2708_vcio: mailbox at f200b880
[ 0.032077] bcm_power: Broadcom power driver
[ 0.032118] bcm_power_open() -> 0
[ 0.032144] bcm_power_request(0, 8)
[ 0.532867] bcm_mailbox_read -> 00000080, 0
[ 0.532912] bcm_power_request -> 0
[ 0.533113] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
[ 0.533308] dev:f1: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x20201000 (irq = 83, base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev3
[ 0.890660] console [ttyAMA0] enabled
[ 0.917330] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 0.923084] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 0.927101] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.932826] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.938410] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.945063] Switched to clocksource stc
[ 0.949300] FS-Cache: Loaded
[ 0.952470] CacheFiles: Loaded
[ 0.968747] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.974225] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.981599] TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.988069] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
[ 0.994523] TCP: reno registered
[ 0.997825] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 1.003700] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 1.010427] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 1.015453] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[ 1.021415] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[ 1.026234] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[ 1.030961] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 1.038415] bcm2708_dma: DMA manager at f2007000
[ 1.043180] bcm2708_gpio: bcm2708_gpio_probe c0641e70
[ 1.048729] vc-mem: phys_addr:0x00000000 mem_base=0x0ec00000 mem_size:0x10000000(256 MiB)
[ 1.058302] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 1.063810] type=2000 audit(0.910:1): initialized
[ 1.238582] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
[ 1.242856] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 1.251798] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
[ 1.258760] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[ 1.263979] Key type id_resolver registered
[ 1.268311] Key type id_legacy registered
[ 1.273057] msgmni has been set to 366
[ 1.278892] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 252)
[ 1.286758] io scheduler noop registered
[ 1.290719] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 1.296359] io scheduler cfq registered
[ 1.301431] BCM2708FB: allocated DMA memory 4bc00000
[ 1.306632] BCM2708FB: allocated DMA channel 0 @ f2007000
[ 1.316444] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 82x52
[ 1.325715] bcm2708-dmaengine bcm2708-dmaengine: Load BCM2835 DMA engine driver
[ 1.333489] uart-pl011 dev:f1: no DMA platform data
[ 1.339253] vc-cma: Videocore CMA driver
[ 1.343254] vc-cma: vc_cma_base = 0x00000000
[ 1.348131] vc-cma: vc_cma_size = 0x00000000 (0 MiB)
[ 1.353599] vc-cma: vc_cma_initial = 0x00000000 (0 MiB)
[ 1.368655] brd: module loaded
[ 1.377072] loop: module loaded
[ 1.380559] vchiq: vchiq_init_state: slot_zero = 0xcb800000, is_master = 0
[ 1.388578] Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-870.
[ 1.394709] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
[ 1.400876] dwc_otg: version 3.00a 10-AUG-2012 (platform bus)
[ 1.608415] Core Release: 2.80a
[ 1.613039] Setting default values for core params
[ 1.619368] Finished setting default values for core params
[ 1.826476] Using Buffer DMA mode
[ 1.831236] Periodic Transfer Interrupt Enhancement - disabled
[ 1.838525] Multiprocessor Interrupt Enhancement - disabled
[ 1.845574] OTG VER PARAM: 0, OTG VER FLAG: 0
[ 1.851379] Dedicated Tx FIFOs mode
[ 1.856722] WARN::dwc_otg_hcd_init:1042: FIQ DMA bounce buffers: virt = 0xcbc14000 dma = 0x4bc14000 len=9024
[ 1.869545] FIQ FSM acceleration enabled for :
[ 1.869545] Non-periodic Split Transactions
[ 1.869545] Periodic Split Transactions
[ 1.869545] High-Speed Isochronous Endpoints
[ 1.891846] dwc_otg: Microframe scheduler enabled
[ 1.891946] WARN::hcd_init:473: FIQ at 0xc0364444
[ 1.898144] WARN::hcd_init:474: FIQ ASM at 0xc0364858 length 36
[ 1.905619] WARN::hcd_init:500: MPHI regs_base at 0xcc806000
[ 1.912706] dwc_otg bcm2708_usb: DWC OTG Controller
[ 1.919077] dwc_otg bcm2708_usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 1.927871] dwc_otg bcm2708_usb: irq 32, io mem 0x00000000
[ 1.934824] Init: Port Power? op_state=1
[ 1.940195] Init: Power Port (0)
[ 1.945208] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[ 1.953444] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 1.962110] usb usb1: Product: DWC OTG Controller
[ 1.968273] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 3.12.26+ dwc_otg_hcd
[ 1.975559] usb usb1: SerialNumber: bcm2708_usb
[ 1.982360] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.987749] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 1.993597] dwc_otg: FIQ enabled
[ 1.993619] dwc_otg: NAK holdoff enabled
[ 1.993630] dwc_otg: FIQ split-transaction FSM enabled
[ 1.993651] Module dwc_common_port init
[ 1.994095] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 2.002051] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 2.009897] bcm2835-cpufreq: min=700000 max=700000 cur=700000
[ 2.017300] bcm2835-cpufreq: switching to governor powersave
[ 2.024381] bcm2835-cpufreq: switching to governor powersave
[ 2.031540] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 2.039195] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 2.045037] sdhci: Enable low-latency mode
[ 2.095127] mmc0: SDHCI controller on BCM2708_Arasan [platform] using platform's DMA
[ 2.106082] mmc0: BCM2708 SDHC host at 0x20300000 DMA 2 IRQ 77
[ 2.113563] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[ 2.120910] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[ 2.130691] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[ 2.145282] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 2.152351] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 2.158328] TCP: cubic registered
[ 2.165238] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[ 2.173108] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 2.181311] Key type dns_resolver registered
[ 2.189380] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00021501
[ 2.203825] registered taskstats version 1
[ 2.225795] Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p2...
[ 2.245308] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 0001
[ 2.265376] mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 00000 3.73 GiB
[ 2.273228] mmcblk0: p1 p2
[ 2.380992] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 2.392228] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) on device 179:2.
[ 2.401373] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 2.406495] Freeing unused kernel memory: 144K (c060e000 - c0632000)
[ 2.415272] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using dwc_otg
[ 2.424932] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00001101
[ 2.635576] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=9512
[ 2.645506] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 2.657486] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.663049] hub 1-1:1.0: 3 ports detected
[ 2.945327] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using dwc_otg
[ 3.055749] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=ec00
[ 3.064260] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 3.085383] smsc95xx v1.0.4
[ 3.160245] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-bcm2708_usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:df:59:18
[ 4.067899] udevd[156]: starting version 175
[ 5.165036] Adafruit Industries' Raspberry Pi PWM driver v1.0
[ 6.298758] bcm2708-i2s bcm2708-i2s.0: Failed to create debugfs directory
[ 11.125637] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[ 11.641466] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[ 12.467512] bcm2708_spi bcm2708_spi.0: master is unqueued, this is deprecated
[ 12.492121] bcm2708_spi bcm2708_spi.0: SPI Controller at 0x20204000 (irq 80)
[ 12.682346] fbtft_device: SPI devices registered:
[ 12.691200] fbtft_device: spidev spi0.0 500kHz 8 bits mode=0x00
[ 12.699446] fbtft_device: spidev spi0.1 500kHz 8 bits mode=0x00
[ 12.707584] fbtft_device: 'fb' Platform devices registered:
[ 12.714865] fbtft_device: bcm2708_fb id=-1 pdata? no
[ 12.721930] fbtft_device: I2C devices registered:
[ 12.805125] fbtft_device: Deleting spi0.1 (spi0.1)
[ 12.818090] stmpe-spi spi0.1: stmpe610 detected, chip id: 0x811
[ 12.842867] fbtft_device: Deleting spi0.0 (spi0.0)
[ 12.855765] fbtft_device: GPIOS used by 'adafruitrt35':
[ 12.862733] fbtft_device: 'dc' = GPIO25
[ 12.885356] fbtft_device: SPI devices registered:
[ 12.891763] fbtft_device: stmpe610 spi0.1 500kHz 8 bits mode=0x00
[ 12.915261] fbtft_device: fb_hx8357d spi0.0 32000kHz 8 bits mode=0x00
[ 13.007499] input: stmpe-ts as /devices/platform/bcm2708_spi.0/spi_master/spi0/spi0.1/stmpe-ts.0/input/input0
[ 14.966797] graphics fb1: fb_hx8357d frame buffer, 480x320, 300 KiB video memory, 4 KiB DMA buffer memory, fps=20, spi0.0 at 32 MHz
[ 20.186506] FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[ 23.853113] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup
[ 25.449015] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE1
[ 31.641366] Adding 102396k swap on /var/swap. Priority:-1 extents:2 across:2134012k SSFS
[ 33.112574] bcm2708_fb_blank blank_mode=1
[ 33.114009] bcm2708_fb_blank returns=1 p[1]=0x80000000
[ 34.524456] bcm2708_fb_blank blank_mode=0
[ 34.532711] bcm2708_fb_blank returns=0 p[1]=0x80000000
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Re: rPi 3.5" TFT DOA

Post by googly_eyes »

So it is looking like there might be a bad batch of these - there are 3 posts just like or similar to mine in the last day.

I tried the suggestion here: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pit ... s-on-pitft

But all I got was the same white screen.

I think this may warrant an RMA...

Is there a way to get one that has been tested prior to shipping?

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Re: rPi 3.5" TFT DOA

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googly_eyes wrote:Image
Sorry, that is the best I could do for the photo
hey googly, it looks like the side tabs ont he flex TFT connector are loose, can you push them in all the way and try again?

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Re: rPi 3.5" TFT DOA

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OK, that did it... thank your for the help.

crisis averted...

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Re: rPi 3.5" TFT DOA

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Wow - good eyes. I can barely see that

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