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Well, we all new this day would come… I have re-invested in another black, sleak and sexy 8GB iPhone…

Thus far this is my 3rd iPhone, dating back to my original purchase back in 2008, where i discovered that the iPhone was a slight dissapointment, part apples fault for extremlypoor software and part O2 (UK) for having such a piss poor network around my area (3G, Yea where !). Well that one went back, i had no intention of paying out £35 a month for a phone which hardly worked and a network which hardly delivered…

Introduce 2nd iPhone, purchased on the 4th April 2008 (yea, i know what you thinking… eh?)… Well, this one was purchased with the 100% intention of cracking the hell out of it and running it on Orange (who my current contract is with and who have a dam fine network everywhere iv ever been)… Alas a wrench was thrown into these works by Apple’s new modem firmware (Baseband) update which was rolled out in 2.2.1, rendering the Yell0wSnow cracking application useless… so this one was reduced to being a very expencive paperweight, but served a good use, in that I could play around with the phone again, see if the original software bugs had been ironed out.

Alas this unit suffered a fate worse than the simple ‘return within 14 days’ i had planned for it, after a bit of a cleaning session with the ‘Apple supplied cleaning rag’ part of the screen has completly stopped working. Apparently this is quite a common problem, and apple are very kind in their replacement of defective units. But, given i was planning on returning it anyways, I cant really say i care hehe !

Well, onto number 3… After being dissapointed with number 2 (I know it wasnt its fault, how could it resist the giant imaging machine giving birth to its 2.2.1 firmware update)… I looked to where I purchase all my goodies these days, eBay !

And what did I find, a kind soul selling unlocked iPhones for £20 less than O2 were selling them instore, the chap had loads ! well, that was settled, ‘BUY IT NOW’ and off I went ! The new unit arrived this morning, orange sim inserted 10 seconds later and away i went hehe !

After about an hour of constant gadget playing and downloading app’s music and other stuff I returned to the springboard to be confrunted with a very annoying red pixel… NOT GOOD…

It was kinda like fate telling me to give up, 3 iPhones, 2 faults in 2 days… not good, but i wasnt gonna give up that easily, after a little google searching i found this little website which promised the earth (alas didnt deliver). Simply load up the site on your iPhone and run the fix screen link… I wouldnt suggest watching it for too long, else you might be tempted to start donating all your money to strange religions.. The idea is that with the pixel only being ‘Stuck’ it might be possible to break it free by brute furce. Give it a run for anout an hour or so, and see if it works for you… from all the reviews found, this works for about 50% of people, the others are stuck with a blue, green or red dot for the rest of time hehe !

But, as said, this approach did not work for me, hence why i took to a more physical option, (Note, be very careful). load up an application which will allow you to touch the part of the screen with the stuck pixel without messing up too much, then gently massage that part of the screen. Its important to apply quite a bit of pressure, but not so much that you increase your stuck pixel into a cracked screen. After doing this for about 10 seconds, i returned to the springboard and noticed that the pixel was fading in and out (black to red to black… etc) so i went back in and kept at it for another 20 seconds… Presto FIXED !

Im pretty sure that this does not fix the problem permanantly, but so far its stayed working perfectly all day without a sign of my little red friend… So, of you got a stuck dot, give it a rub !

UPDATE : The pixel did return about two more times, but another quick rub got rid of it, and it havent seen it now for well over a month !