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My Chatter 2.0 screen is blank, upside down or distorted

What to check when a Chatter 2.0 screen shows nothing, or shows its picture flipped, mirrored or fuzzy.

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Written by Albert Gajsak

A screen that is blank, flipped, mirrored or fuzzy on one unit of a pair is annoying, and there are two checks worth making before we arrange anything.

  • Fit fresh batteries first. Chatter runs on replaceable batteries rather than a rechargeable one, and low power can show up as a dim, flickering or blank display before anything else complains.

  • Restore the firmware from code.circuitmess.com on a desktop computer running Chrome, Edge or Opera. If the display driver or the software got into a bad state, this puts the unit back to how it shipped, and it fixes a share of flipped and garbled screens.

Please do not open the screen connection or press on the display — if the picture is still wrong with fresh batteries and after a firmware restore, the fault is one for us.

Email [email protected] with your order number, a photo of the screen showing the problem, and a short video of it from power-on. Say whether it was like this out of the box or changed later — the two point at different causes.

A screen that arrived faulty is replaced at no cost to you. How replacements work, and whether you can buy a single unit rather than a pair, is covered in Can I buy a replacement screen or a single unit for Chatter 2.0?.

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