Surface Pro 4, Screen Flickering, Shaking

Facing the same flickering problem here. I thought of paying the US400+ for a replacement (out of warranty of course..........), but decided not to because after reading the thread, it seems more like a process of drawing lottery that one might get a flicker free set.

I really love the SP concept, gotta give it to the team. So I thought, may be I will just get the SP2017 by paying for a brand new set. And then I read that SP2017 flickering complaints are beginning to show by now. So no go there again. 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/surfpronew-surfdrivers/surface-pro-2017-screen-flickering/d5993f03-0a86-417c-b35d-d4e1e3e6d250

I thought then may be I will switch completely to the surface book 2. And only to find out it has a major battery issue.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3237656/laptop-computers/microsofts-surface-book-2-has-a-power-problem.html

So now I have just resigned to fate that I (and along with so many of you) are just quite unfortunate. I will probably stick with the flickering issue until the line of product becomes more reliable. Right now, there is some noise from the SP consumers, but obviously microsoft thinks it not worth addressing yet

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/10/consumer-reports-pulls-microsoft-surface-recommendation.html

Too many corporate giants thought they were too big to fall, but history has it that the like of Volkswagen, Takata (just to name a few) eventually will. Microsoft, you are a great company with amazing products, I hope it doesn't take a magnitude 8 earthquake before you realize that you should have reinforce the houses way earlier.

My Surface pro 4, bought at Fnac in Bilbao (Spain) in January 2016, has been working well until August 2017. Since then, the screen flickers after 2 or 3 hours of work when it is still,  and can not be used with texts or graphics, or with any program that requires reading on the screen. The flicker of the screen stops when moving the cursor  and starts after 3 or 4 seconds of being a fixed screen. This makes the Surface not workable.

Between 9/2017 and 01/2018, under warranty, we have sent to repair the Surface 3 times and it has not been fixed. Now it is again delivered at Fnac waiting for what Microsoft's technical service says.

How many times is necessary to do it? The loss of time and the inability to use this device to work is unacceptable.

Added to these facts, is the incompetence of Fnac and Microsoft that do not offer fix, or replacement or refund of money due to a product fail. It is a scam that this expensive high-end

product has been put on sale without quality controls or,  if these are isolated cases, the Surface is not replaced to the affected users.

I hope it will be offered to all of us who are suffering from the neglect and unacceptable treatment of Microsoft a solution as soon as possible.

Meanwhile I recommend, after this bad experience, not to buy a Surface laptop until these cases of failure are solved satisfactorily. And also from my experience, if there are post-sale problems, the Fnac Bilbao service does not take  care of the ni product offered to the client, devoting itself to diverting its responsibility.

I also noticed that I never notice the fan turning on inside my SP4 anymore. I don't use my device for any intensive tasks (just internet, mail, Office, etc.), but in the past I heard the fan turn on once in a while. But now I don't hear it turning on ever. Is there some test that I can run to check if the fan is actually working?

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