Arduino Uno tft display stuck in blue screen

Hello all . Im having an issue trying to display custom bmp images on my device. I am currenly using a arduino uno and a 2.4 inch tft display (2.4 inch TFT LCD Touch Screen Shield for Arduino UNO R3 Mega2560 LCD Modules | eBay) Im running the program MCUFRIEND_KBV_MASTER- .....SHowbmpuno.I have 2 bmp images saved on my microsd card usb . Ive tried leaving the microusb sd card in while uploading so arduino ide could read it but that didnt work . I also put sd card inside tft and then tried uploading and that didn't work either . And finally when I added the name of my Bmp image("Landcape") in line #21 "#define NAMEMATCH "landscape" // "" matches any name" and uploaded it my display turns blue. Id apreciate if anyone could try to steer me on the easiest path to displaying images for my device . I have a habit of making things harder than they should be....Thanks.. code is down below

// MCUFRIEND UNO shields have microSD on pins 10, 11, 12, 13
// The official <SD.h> library only works on the hardware SPI pins
// e.g. 11, 12, 13 on a Uno  (or STM32 Nucleo)
//
// copy all your BMP files to the root directory on the microSD with your PC
// (or another directory)

#include <SPI.h>            // f.k. for Arduino-1.5.2
//#define USE_SDFAT
#include <SD.h>             // Use the official SD library on hardware pins

#include <Adafruit_GFX.h>   // Hardware-specific library
#include <MCUFRIEND_kbv.h>
MCUFRIEND_kbv tft;

#if defined(ESP32)
#define SD_CS     5
#else
#define SD_CS     10
#endif
#define NAMEMATCH "landscape"        // "" matches any name
//#define NAMEMATCH "tiger"   // *tiger*.bmp
#define PALETTEDEPTH   0     // do not support Palette modes
//#define PALETTEDEPTH   8     // support 256-colour Palette

char namebuf[32] = "/";   //BMP files in root directory
//char namebuf[32] = "/bitmaps/";  //BMP directory e.g. files in /bitmaps/*.bmp

File root;
int pathlen;

void setup()
{
    uint16_t ID;
    Serial.begin(9600);
    Serial.print("Show BMP files on TFT with ID:0x");
    ID = tft.readID();
    Serial.println(ID, HEX);
    if (ID == 0x0D3D3) ID = 0x9481;
    tft.begin(ID);
    tft.fillScreen(0x001F);
    tft.setTextColor(0xFFFF, 0x0000);
    bool good = SD.begin(SD_CS);
    if (!good) {
        Serial.print(F("cannot start SD"));
        while (1);
    }
    root = SD.open(namebuf);
    pathlen = strlen(namebuf);
}

void loop()
{
    char *nm = namebuf + pathlen;
    File f = root.openNextFile();
    uint8_t ret;
    uint32_t start;
    if (f != NULL) {
#ifdef USE_SDFAT
        f.getName(nm, 32 - pathlen);
#else
        strcpy(nm, (char *)f.name());
#endif
        f.close();
        strlwr(nm);
        if (strstr(nm, ".bmp") != NULL && strstr(nm, NAMEMATCH) != NULL) {
            Serial.print(namebuf);
            Serial.print(F(" - "));
            tft.fillScreen(0);
            start = millis();
            ret = showBMP(namebuf, 5, 5);
            switch (ret) {
                case 0:
                    Serial.print(millis() - start);
                    Serial.println(F("ms"));
                    delay(5000);
                    break;
                case 1:
                    Serial.println(F("bad position"));
                    break;
                case 2:
                    Serial.println(F("bad BMP ID"));
                    break;
                case 3:
                    Serial.println(F("wrong number of planes"));
                    break;
                case 4:
                    Serial.println(F("unsupported BMP format"));
                    break;
                case 5:
                    Serial.println(F("unsupported palette"));
                    break;
                default:
                    Serial.println(F("unknown"));
                    break;
            }
        }
    }
    else root.rewindDirectory();
}

#define BMPIMAGEOFFSET 54

#define BUFFPIXEL      20

uint16_t read16(File& f) {
    uint16_t result;         // read little-endian
    f.read((uint8_t*)&result, sizeof(result));
    return result;
}

uint32_t read32(File& f) {
    uint32_t result;
    f.read((uint8_t*)&result, sizeof(result));
    return result;
}

uint8_t showBMP(char *nm, int x, int y)
{
    File bmpFile;
    int bmpWidth, bmpHeight;    // W+H in pixels
    uint8_t bmpDepth;           // Bit depth (currently must be 24, 16, 8, 4, 1)
    uint32_t bmpImageoffset;    // Start of image data in file
    uint32_t rowSize;           // Not always = bmpWidth; may have padding
    uint8_t sdbuffer[3 * BUFFPIXEL];    // pixel in buffer (R+G+B per pixel)
    uint16_t lcdbuffer[(1 << PALETTEDEPTH) + BUFFPIXEL], *palette = NULL;
    uint8_t bitmask, bitshift;
    boolean flip = true;        // BMP is stored bottom-to-top
    int w, h, row, col, lcdbufsiz = (1 << PALETTEDEPTH) + BUFFPIXEL, buffidx;
    uint32_t pos;               // seek position
    boolean is565 = false;      //

    uint16_t bmpID;
    uint16_t n;                 // blocks read
    uint8_t ret;

    if ((x >= tft.width()) || (y >= tft.height()))
        return 1;               // off screen

    bmpFile = SD.open(nm);      // Parse BMP header
    bmpID = read16(bmpFile);    // BMP signature
    (void) read32(bmpFile);     // Read & ignore file size
    (void) read32(bmpFile);     // Read & ignore creator bytes
    bmpImageoffset = read32(bmpFile);       // Start of image data
    (void) read32(bmpFile);     // Read & ignore DIB header size
    bmpWidth = read32(bmpFile);
    bmpHeight = read32(bmpFile);
    n = read16(bmpFile);        // # planes -- must be '1'
    bmpDepth = read16(bmpFile); // bits per pixel
    pos = read32(bmpFile);      // format
    if (bmpID != 0x4D42) ret = 2; // bad ID
    else if (n != 1) ret = 3;   // too many planes
    else if (pos != 0 && pos != 3) ret = 4; // format: 0 = uncompressed, 3 = 565
    else if (bmpDepth < 16 && bmpDepth > PALETTEDEPTH) ret = 5; // palette 
    else {
        bool first = true;
        is565 = (pos == 3);               // ?already in 16-bit format
        // BMP rows are padded (if needed) to 4-byte boundary
        rowSize = (bmpWidth * bmpDepth / 8 + 3) & ~3;
        if (bmpHeight < 0) {              // If negative, image is in top-down order.
            bmpHeight = -bmpHeight;
            flip = false;
        }

        w = bmpWidth;
        h = bmpHeight;
        if ((x + w) >= tft.width())       // Crop area to be loaded
            w = tft.width() - x;
        if ((y + h) >= tft.height())      //
            h = tft.height() - y;

        if (bmpDepth <= PALETTEDEPTH) {   // these modes have separate palette
            //bmpFile.seek(BMPIMAGEOFFSET); //palette is always @ 54
            bmpFile.seek(bmpImageoffset - (4<<bmpDepth)); //54 for regular, diff for colorsimportant
            bitmask = 0xFF;
            if (bmpDepth < 8)
                bitmask >>= bmpDepth;
            bitshift = 8 - bmpDepth;
            n = 1 << bmpDepth;
            lcdbufsiz -= n;
            palette = lcdbuffer + lcdbufsiz;
            for (col = 0; col < n; col++) {
                pos = read32(bmpFile);    //map palette to 5-6-5
                palette[col] = ((pos & 0x0000F8) >> 3) | ((pos & 0x00FC00) >> 5) | ((pos & 0xF80000) >> 8);
            }
        }

        // Set TFT address window to clipped image bounds
        tft.setAddrWindow(x, y, x + w - 1, y + h - 1);
        for (row = 0; row < h; row++) { // For each scanline...
            // Seek to start of scan line.  It might seem labor-
            // intensive to be doing this on every line, but this
            // method covers a lot of gritty details like cropping
            // and scanline padding.  Also, the seek only takes
            // place if the file position actually needs to change
            // (avoids a lot of cluster math in SD library).
            uint8_t r, g, b, *sdptr;
            int lcdidx, lcdleft;
            if (flip)   // Bitmap is stored bottom-to-top order (normal BMP)
                pos = bmpImageoffset + (bmpHeight - 1 - row) * rowSize;
            else        // Bitmap is stored top-to-bottom
                pos = bmpImageoffset + row * rowSize;
            if (bmpFile.position() != pos) { // Need seek?
                bmpFile.seek(pos);
                buffidx = sizeof(sdbuffer); // Force buffer reload
            }

            for (col = 0; col < w; ) {  //pixels in row
                lcdleft = w - col;
                if (lcdleft > lcdbufsiz) lcdleft = lcdbufsiz;
                for (lcdidx = 0; lcdidx < lcdleft; lcdidx++) { // buffer at a time
                    uint16_t color;
                    // Time to read more pixel data?
                    if (buffidx >= sizeof(sdbuffer)) { // Indeed
                        bmpFile.read(sdbuffer, sizeof(sdbuffer));
                        buffidx = 0; // Set index to beginning
                        r = 0;
                    }
                    switch (bmpDepth) {          // Convert pixel from BMP to TFT format
                        case 24:
                            b = sdbuffer[buffidx++];
                            g = sdbuffer[buffidx++];
                            r = sdbuffer[buffidx++];
                            color = tft.color565(r, g, b);
                            break;
                        case 16:
                            b = sdbuffer[buffidx++];
                            r = sdbuffer[buffidx++];
                            if (is565)
                                color = (r << 8) | (b);
                            else
                                color = (r << 9) | ((b & 0xE0) << 1) | (b & 0x1F);
                            break;
                        case 1:
                        case 4:
                        case 8:
                            if (r == 0)
                                b = sdbuffer[buffidx++], r = 8;
                            color = palette[(b >> bitshift) & bitmask];
                            r -= bmpDepth;
                            b <<= bmpDepth;
                            break;
                    }
                    lcdbuffer[lcdidx] = color;

                }
                tft.pushColors(lcdbuffer, lcdidx, first);
                first = false;
                col += lcdidx;
            }           // end cols
        }               // end rows
        tft.setAddrWindow(0, 0, tft.width() - 1, tft.height() - 1); //restore full screen
        ret = 0;        // good render
    }
    bmpFile.close();
    return (ret);
}

Go back to the basics, test the display. Load a simple sketch and see if the LCD works, then adjust the contrast pot to where you like it. You can cheat and just try adjusting the pot. If that does not work post a schematic, not a frizzy picture. Be sure to include links to technical information on all the hardware devices.

Also I have found it is VERY hard to get your pictures formatted correctly..
Try this
tree.zip (186.6 KB)
Sorry for the .zip but It wouldn't let me upload a .BMP file.

Thank you for you reply gil . The lcd tft display works just fine when uploading graphic test and other examples in MCUFRIEND. Also I am not sure what contrast pot is ? Is there a way to upload images with sd card ? Perhaps hex code ? What would best for me ?

The contrast pot is probably the only one on the display assembly. Uploading images without a schematic etc I could not be sure but probably not. You would have to load them with the UNO then display them.

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