If you have a broken LCD LED TV Screen that has any type of damage such as lines running vertically, spots or patches, cracks or breaks, this page will give you tips to get it fixed. Many TV’s nowadays (Plasma, LCD, LED) are large and delicate.
If a large flat screen TV is not attached to a wall, it has a higher chance of falling over and cracking the screen. If your flat screen LCD TV has fallen over, most likely the screen has taken a hit. See below for some ways to possibly fix this without having to buy a NEW TV.
If your TV does not have a cracked screen and the problem has just appeared on its own, you may be able to fall back on the TV manufacturers warranty. If your TV screen has developed spots, vertical lines, small dots, unusually bright pixels, fading, distorted shading, or color issues, you may be able to use the warranty.
To make contacting your TV manufacturer easier, we have included links to most TV manufacturers below. Be sure to have your purchase receipt, and take note of the model number and serial number on the back of your TV.
TV brand links for warranty claims listed by popularity: Samsung, Vizio, LG, Sony, Sharp, Panasonic, Insignia, Toshiba, JVC, Philips, Magnavox, Sanyo, and Emerson. These links will help you to contact the manufacturer to file a warranty claim. If the TV has a been cracked or a hit to the screen has caused colorful vertical lines, then this is something that has happened from physical damage and is not covered under warranty.
If your flat screen TV has the dreaded vertical lines, half of the screen has turned darker, the screen is cracked, or the screen is broken, this can be repaired but may cost more than you paid for the complete TV. If your screen is cracked or broken, you can try replacing the Screen, LCD, Plasma, or LED part. On some flat screen TVs there is a glass panel on top of the actual screen. You need to determine which is broken before you attempt to order parts.
Repairing a Broken Flat Screen TV
If you are going to be repairing a flat screen TV there are certain problems you may encounter. The most likely issues on broken TV’s will be a cracked screen, picture lines or black spots, or image distortion problems. If the damage to the screen has NOT gone past the screen, and has NOT gone into the LCD, LED, or Plasma behind the screen, then fixing the flat screen TV is going to be possible if you get the parts you need cheap.
If your TV screen is severely cracked and the damage has penetrated beyond that, then it is deep enough to have damaged the LCD, LED or Plasma. If this is your case, then it may cost more to repair your TV than to replace it.
There may be some LCD LED PLASMA TV repair shops near you that can answer some questions for you. Some flat screen repair shops do not repair broken screens as the cost is not worth it. They will however replace different internal parts in the TV that may have failed. These failed parts in the TV may have caused the TV to not display the screen correctly, ghosting, or a screen that is not turning on.
If the screen is not broken but the screen does not come on but your warranty is no longer valid, here are some things you can do. One single part has probably failed in your flat screen TV. There are many circuit boards and wiring harnesses inside your flat panel TV. Some of the parts in an LCD or LED TV are power supplies, t-con boards, capacitors, inverters, controller boards, IR sensors, signal inputs, and more.
One of the best places to purchase TV replacement screens is on eBay. If you need parts like control circuit boards and wire harnesses, useful parts online has LED, LCD, and Plasma TV replacement parts at good prices.
Cheap TV replacement parts are available to fix your TV.
If you need a main board, T-CON, LED driver, or signal input board.
One of the parts may have failed in your TV therefore causing the screen to not turn on. Determining which part that may be bad inside your TV may be difficult. It can be done but is not recommended if you have no knowledge of using a multimeter or have no electronic repair experience. However if this is your situation, you can take the TV to a repair shop and they can troubleshoot the issue for you.
Have them tell you the part that has gone bad, pay them the $40 or so bucks it cost to troubleshoot, and go home and buy the part online yourself. This will save you money and your TV should work like new.
If your TV is NOT fixable, most people take out the circuit boards and part them out. Selling the audio and video components in your broken TV may be the only way to try and recoup the cost of the value of your TV. This is not recommended as some used TV parts are not worth very much. If you do decide to remove the parts, you could try selling them on eBay.
To see how to take apart and repair a flat screen TV or monitor, there are a few videos below which can guide you in the right direction. Be careful when taking apart a television as power may still be stored in some of the parts which can cause electrocution.
LED TV Repair Tutorial – Common Symptoms & Solutions
LED LCD TV FIX, How To For Double Image, Black Vertical Lines, Screen Problem
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If you have some advice to repair a broken flat screen TV or monitor, please help out our other readers with the same TV problems and leave a comment or a helpful tip below.
Kevin,
How old is your Samsung TV? Are the lines vertical or horizontal? Has anything made hard contact with the screen that you know of? Did this just start to happen or was it a slow process? Meaning, did it happen overnight or did you start to notice the white lines gradually appearing? Does the white line issue happen on all inputs?
-RR
I have a Samsung unh46h5203afxzc with three big white lines that take up almost half the screen and the other half works perfectly?
Simo,
The only way to get your LG TV covered by either a warranty or elsewhere, is to have proof that it was damaged in shipping. If you bought the LG TV from a friend and they never opened it, then it could have been cracked while it was in transit. Where did your friend buy the TV? How old is the TV? What is the manufacturer date on the back of the TV? If the friend never opened it, sold it to you, and when you opened it, it was cracked, then the box should be damaged. If there is no box damage then the “damaged in shipping” can be ruled out. You could also take it up with your friend or have them help you track where the TV was bought originally.
We have heard of people buying a TV at a retail shop and upon opening the TV found the screen was cracked. Obviously this was caused in shipping. The retailer and manufacturer did not believe this and refused to return the TV. This was usually because of a 3 to 4 day time period from the day they bought the TV. The retailer said “If the TV was cracked, you would have brought it back the same day”. The only thing the person could do was to go to another store, buy the same exact TV, go home, put the cracked TV in the new box, and returned it the same day. They had the amount of money gone that was originally invested in the first TV, but doing this got them a new TV, and got their money back from the secondary purchase. This was only done when the person knew they were right and the companies did not want to cooperate.
(We are not giving advise on what to do here, just an example of the lengths people go to not get cheated out of the cost of a large flat screen TV when it was cracked on arrival)
-RR
Jenae,
If the TV was hit by the remote control, meaning someone threw the remote control at the screen, then most likely this is NOT fixable. You can try to find a replacement screen but anything over 46″ is going to be somewhat expensive. You may get lucky and can find the exact TV you have on Craigslist that has a burned out control board and then swap out parts and make one good TV. Honestly your best bet is buying a new TV.
-RR
My Toshiba 55″ was hit with the remote on bottom right but the whole right side starts out with lines then top half of right side is white and middle of right had black where remote hit. Bottom right is normal and left side is normal. Is this fixable? Thank you
I have an LG TV 50LB5900 that has a broken/hit screen (it shows two pictures colorful in the middle and left bottom corner is normal and not damaged). The TV is still under warranty, But LG said they can’t cover it because it is a physical damage and not under warranty. I bought the TV from a friend. He said it was never opened. I opened it then I found this problem. I argued with LG they said they are sorry they cant do anything. TV is brand new and I am stuck with it. I don’t know what to do. Can this TV be fixed and if so, how much it will cost me, if you need pictures of it I will send them in. It is an LG 50″ inch model 50LB5900. Please let me know.
Tania,
When you say “TV is cracked on the inside” do you mean the front display panel or the panel under that?
You should be able to buy any 32″ JVC replacement screen but they are usually not cheap. You could try Alibaba as they have just about every type of replacement screens for LED and LCD flat screen TVs.
-RR
I have a JVC LT-32PM748 HDTV. It just fell over one day and cracked. It’s only cracked on the inside though, not the outside which is still smooth and unbroken. It still works as I plugged it in and I can see the menu text on the screen between the cracks. I saw a video that said you can peel back the film that’s cracked and fix this problem, but it wasn’t in depth. Also, when I tried to expose the screen, I took out all the screws and only the back part came off. I think I need a diagram to properly disassemble. Any ideas, sources? If I end up having to buy a used replacement screen, does it have to be the exact model or can it be any 32″ JVC? I checked on eBay and there’s nothing available right now for this model.
Hasan,
Can you provide us with the model number of your LCD Samsung TV?
Is the screen black, gray, lines, dots, cracked, or other?
-RR
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