This is my third GPS of this model which fails this way and I see several for sale on eBay which are also already beginning to fail.
I have opened it up and inspected the ribbon cable which connects the screen to the PCB and it seems the contacts are just lined up and the flat cable has adhesive and so the contacts are held together just by the adhesive on the cable. I tried putting some pressure to see if that restored the contacts but it ruined whatever lines of pixels were still working.
Personally I consider it gone as trying to repair it is beyond my ability and competency.
But I wonder if someone might be able to restore the contacts.
It is a shame because I really like this little hand-held unit but I am not about to buy another one just to have it fail in short order.
Anyone have any recommendation on a similar, hand-held, small, light, cheap unit? I only need the most basic functions. No need for maps, just tracks and waypoints.