my buddy's nephew did a number on his flatscreen with a magnet. i couldn't find a degauss option in the menu (probably due to it being an LCD) and these don't look like they'll be disappearing soon since the pics were taken a few days after it happened. i saw this video online of a guy fixing a CRT with a magnet in the chuck of a drill, would that work or is there another solution for fixing the screen? the neon green part of this one worries me. it looks like theres "internal bleeding" of the LCD membrane it's a little hard to see from the pic but the spots are all either gray or black
I remember doing the same to my old CRT tv most of the screen wasn't the right colour, a few days later I switched it on gain and it was gone.
CRT's have magnets to adjust the cathode ray gun light to pass throw the whole screen. The degauss feature was put to eliminate extra magnetic fields which interrupts the main monitor magnets. LCD's, don't have magnets, as they don't need any. LCD liquid is easily affected by magnetic fields. In addition, like any magnet on a circuit board, it affects it to some degree. While this degree is minimal for any circuit board that we encounter, it does for the LCD grid, potentially even damaging them. I can't give you more details, and don't know how strong a magnet is required, as I am no expert. My guess, is that you pulls the LCD liquid out of their pixels with the magnet. The bad news, is that there is no way to fix this problem.
As other people have said it may be damaged. I would try leaving it unplugged for 24 hours or so to see if it resets at all, cant think of anything else to try really!
The only option here is for your buddy to sell his nephew into slavery and use the funds to buy a new TV
Is it also a possibility it's just pressure damage? He pressed a magnet against it and it's the pressure that's done the harm not the gear murdering magneto-energy
If the problem doesn't solve itself (unlikely at this stage, but worth a try) you could always try the magnet-in-drill trick. Put it in slightly off-centre to make a nice, weird field as it rotates and it might help. Chances are it's absolutely hosed though, it looks like the crystal has started to seep from the membranes/structures that hold them in place.
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dont know if this will help as its done on a crt monitor me be worth a go. didnt see other post but here is a vid lol
CRT monitors have an In-built degaussing coil so it gets the magnetic field correctly, (I have no idea how, but CRTs are actually related to the poles). It's going to be tough, but I must say, that must have been a hell of a magnet. Most ordinary magnets aren't supposed to do that kind of damage. It looks like the panel is permanently damaged, the Liquid crystals seems to have moved.
