u/afrdzo

Hi,

So I've just modded one of my DS Lites with dual IPS screens from AliExpress, and after I was finally happy with how all of this stuff fitted into my OEM shell etc., I've assembled everything back and removed the protective films from the screens in the end.

It was in this moment I've realized, that - in contrary to crisp top screen - the bottom one looks like a mess. It looks like some kind of layer was still sticked into it and caused enourmous sub-pixel level artefacts while looking at this screen, and especially while tilting it even a little bit.

notice the noisy bottom screen

I think this is just how bad the digitizer is done on this screen, but would love to hear from someone that has the same mod and could confirm if their bottom IPS screen looks that bad as well, or maybe there's something fundamentaly wrong with digitizer on mine.

I've uploaded video on which I'm trying to show the issue to streamable:

https://streamable.com/x2a6fm

edit: tried to record it again

https://streamable.com/61kwcj

edit2: this should be the best:

https://streamable.com/a1avfv

Notice how there's this noisy layer visible on the bottom screen, and it's not the video compression. On the video it's gray, but to the naked eye it's actually RGB-ish and two or even three times worse.

So if any of you folks has dual/bottom screen DSLite IPS mod, please let me know how it looks on your console.

Thanks!

top: clean white, bottom: visible noise layer

Hi,

So this TV is not at my place, but I'm trying to help someone else remotely.

They have new Xiaomi TV A PRO 2025 32" and local DVB TV cable connected to it, and using default Xiaomi app to watch the cable TV.

However, seems like after the Android system update they got, they lost the sound on some channels from the cable TV. The sound works overall, but it looks like on some channels there's some different encoding or whatever, and suddently the TV is not recognizing it?

The "Audio" button on the affected channels shows empty list (in a contrary to the channels that has a working sound), unplugging the TV from the power for the whole night didn't fix the issue, as well as the built-it Factory Reset from the Android system menu. They've also checked the sound setting to be sure that any enhancments, DTS, surround and stuff like that are off.

These affected channels have their audio working correctly on the previous, older TV they got.

What could be the issue here, what else can I try to help the owners?

Info:
Android TV: 11
Security patches: 1 Dec 2025
Kernel version:
4.19.116++
#1 Mon Dec 15 16:13:52 CST 2025
Android TV OS compilation:
RTM5.220609.003.1 585

Hello,

So I would love to buy some of these:
https://everdrive.me/accessories/gba.html

Unfortunately there are two issues.

1. They don't ship to my country, which I could try to bypass by ordering to some address in the neighbour country.
2. It seems like ordering it overall is a risk because I'm not receiving any support answer mails from them, nor registration mails, I wrote to them from non GMail account as well - as I've seen suggestions that Google might've blacklisted their mails - but no reply there too.

It also seems that modding a regular GBA cart shell is not worth the hassle. Even after cutting some parts of the plastic, you would still need to make a back plastic thinner to accomodate for the chips on the back of Everdrive PCB.

And so, the question... any ideas how I could get my Everdrive in some kind of a new, nice looking shell?

(Oh yea, and the reason is - my OG shell is broken. I can still use the cart but I'd like to have it not-damaged, and ideally = black, not transparent)

Thanks

Hello all,

So I got a small experience with GBA SP modding, already did like 5 Hispeedido v5 IPS mods, and also this one Funnyplaying ITA mod which is a bit harder.

They sent me a wrong lens (white instead black) so while I was waiting for the proper screen shipment, I modded this GBA SP with this white ITA screen. It went OK, apart from the screen itself having some bad/dead pixels after couple of days, but I was waiting for the replacement anyway.

So today I got the screen (only screen, without new controller PCB that you stick to the back of the screen), and when the ribbon is plugged in to the controller, GB make a high-pitched short sound while booting and flashes red light once, and you can't hear booting sequence sound. There's also no reaction on the screen itself. I feel like there's something wrong with the new screen and/or its ribbon?

When I plugged the old (white) screen back in, everything works correctly, meaning, I can see the GB logo on the screen and hear the sound of booting.

Is there anything I can do to or check or measure in terms of voltages etc. on the console or controller or ribbons? Or am I f'ed once again after another weeks of waiting for the replacement?

Gotta say, I'm very happy with Hispeedido screens quality and that all of the ones I've ordered were perfectly fine. With Funnyplaying however, it's pretty dissapointing experience.

Thanks

Hi all,
Forgive me yet another question in this category on this Reddit, but I'm fresh guy in this hobby and need your help.

I've recently bought two Walkmans in very good visual condition, and - according to sellers - very good technical conditions, after cleaning, belt replacements etc.

It was WM-EX53 and WM-EX502

So the issue is, the EX53 played left channel louder than the right one, it was hearable on any tape, multiple headphones etc., and you could even hear it listening to the white noise without tape plugged in. Moving volume slider didn't change L to R ratio, there was also no crackling.

I've returned it, and later on I received my EX502 and...

...the issue is almost exactly the same! The only thing different from the above is that on the auto-reverse, the noise becames quiter on L channel and it's actually even with R. But on normal playback (no auto-reverse) the left side is louder, white noise is much more noticable etc. = with this device I even confirmed it on visual meters in Reaper on my PC

Am I crazy, doing something wrong, or just got "lucky" that the first two Walkmans from which I wanted to start my collection are not working properly in a same manner?

Thanks