eli5: How does smacking a TV make it work again?

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Sometimes when TVs show nothing but fuzzy static, in the correct channel, people can hit them and it ‘fixes’ it and displays the correct image, how does that work? What’s initially wrong and then what gets fixed?

I’m not sure if it happens with new TVs though.

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Feom whag i’ve been told, the problem is usually a short circuit somewhere in the device or somethign aling those lines.hitting it has a chance of reconnecting the wires, so it wouldnt fix permanently it, but be a temporary job.

Absolutely still does it on modern stuff, just the other week i had to smack my sister’s phone because it had a purple screen of death, instantly worked again after 3 osh hits. Probably does it for all devices tbh

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