Surface Pro 2017 Backlight Bleed

Got device #8 now and got the worst bleed of them all...

Now even the Microsoft Support stopped answering me.

Maybe I have to give up.

Getting tired of this.

Of course every edge lit Led LCD has a backlight bleeding problem to some degree. Even Oleds have uneven backlighting.

The problem is probably due to the way they manufacture the screen unit. I have , so far, only seen this specific backlighting problem on the surface laptop and the new surface pros.

The difference between backlight bleeding on these devices and the normal light bleed on other LCDs is that it is always visible.

Usually you only notice a few spots when a dark grey/black color is being displayed.

On the new surface devices it is a solid bright bar, even if the display shows the color white.

Especially on the small display of the surface pro this is very distracting.

I would say all electronic devices with LCDs have this problem.  The way to fix it would require taking apart the device, and sticking duct tape around the edges between the screen and the bezel.  See this how to to see how to fix it on an LCD monitor.  Note that if you take apart your Surface, Microsoft will no longer service it, but it is worth a shot.  My Surface Pro 4 has this around the top and a few other places, and although it is annoying, my iPhone also has screen bleed on the left edge and a crack on the upper left.  However, because I only cared about it when it was so obtrusive and in the middle of my surface, I got the device replaced.  Now that my Surface is out of warranty, I cannot get it replaced, but you may be able to fix it by following this link above.  Although this is for a Dell monitor, the directions will be similar since you need to pop off the screen and the bezel before you start placing Duct tape.

Other causes of screen bleed:  Pushing on the screen, device is in travel, much more.

You may also want to see this reddit post which shows how a user fixes backlight bleed.

Of course I can, and this with all the three Surfaces I own. I press hard right by the inner edge of the bezel (avoiding the screen itself). The white light excess goes off immediately at this exact point. Nothing like that happens on the opposite, unaffected edge. I also read someone somewhere mentioning that his "user experience" was the same.

There is a particular pattern indeed, with the bottom left corner (or upper left, if held in portrait mode) being most prone to the problem. I don't know the reason, but I can only speculate that that's where some specific component of the device is, causing stress level to vary at this particular spot. 

Either way, I don't even care that much. It's an unequestionable manufacturing defect.

Wait, you can reduce the bleed by pressing the screen with your fingers? How exactly and where do you press?

I tried various ways of imposing mechanical stress, and none of it could explain the bleed. Just because the screen gets darker when you press in one spot doesn't mean that the source of the problem is mechanical. It still needs to explain the particular pattern. Also, mechanical stresses aren't easy to reproduce almost identically from one machine to the other, which is what we're observing (if you send me a picture of your bleed, I'll prove it to you that it's the almost the same as anyone's).

This is far more likely to be a problem with the LCD circuitry, particularly regulating the LEDs, than it is to be mechanical stress.