I have checked the soldering in the early stages, and there are no "shorts", I can display anything on it without a problem, what bugs me is this:
If I initialize the display with anything else but the DS the screen stays blank as normal, but when the screen is initialized with the DS code it starts all lit up, and then starts displaying random chars even though in the code there is no code for printing something on it... as if the code for the DS is pushing data to the display...
unfortunately I do not have another display for the moment...
update, if I initialize the example for DS without any display code the display lights up and stays lit if sensors are presnt, if they are not present the display stays blank as normal, it's as if the DS code is pushing data to the display.. I'm clueless as of what could cause this