Noname SSD1306 not working with all libraries

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Dear Arduino-fellows,

I've followed this github project and wanted to build a lorawan tracker:

using a noname SSD1306 OLED from amazon:

I've verified that the OLED works with following library, as suggested by the distributor:

However, the display just outputs bullshit when using the thingpulse library examples or the code in the github repo:

Is there any software fix for this, is the hardware different?
Thank you!

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Is that display using an SH1106 controller and not an SSD1306 ??

I dont speak German, but I see this;

:heavy_check_mark: Dank Standard-Controller (SSH 1106) bereits Bibliotheken für Arduino,

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Thank you a lot, I think you are right! In their manual, they refer to using SH1106 for Arduino:
U8G2_SH1106_128X64_NONAME_F_HW_I2C u8g2(U8G2_R0, /* reset=*/
U8X8_PIN_NONE);

I will get one with an ssd1306 driver!

Sorry for bothering you if this was really the problem.

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mbobinger:
Sorry for bothering you if this was really the problem.

Actually, you might have made a valuable contribution!!
When I first saw this post, I assumed it was nonsense and you simply need to advance a little further along the road to Damascus. However, I had some grief with graphics on my OLED. I never pursued this as I wasn't interested in graphics and got what I wanted with Adafruit's ascii library, and that was a better way to go about it anyway. It never occurred to me that my OLED might have some oddball controller.

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Nick_Pyner:
Actually, you might have made a valuable contribution!!
When I first saw this post, I assumed it was nonsense and you simply need to advance a little further along the road to Damascus. However, I had some grief with graphics on my OLED. I never pursued this as I wasn't interested in graphics and got what I wanted with Adafruit's ascii library, and that was a better way to go about it anyway. It never occurred to me that my OLED might have some oddball controller.

First I thought like ok, let's port the project to u8g2 library but after 1-2hours I've lost the joy in porting the relatively extensive list of functions so my lazy workaround is just purchasing an oled with ssd1306 driver.