I'm using an Arduino Uno (R3) and a SEEEDstudio 2.8" TFT touch shield V1.0 (05A12)
and it does not work beyond illuminating the backlight.
I've tried downloading and installing a few of the TFT libraries out there (including the SEEED recommended one at http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/File:TFT_Touch_Shield_libraries.zip - which didn't work) The only one which I wasn't able to install was the Adafruit library at: GitHub - adafruit/TFTLCD-Library: Arduino library for 8-bit TFT LCDs such as ILI9325, ILI9328, etc - which brings up an error saying the file has non-ASCII characters in it (wtf?).
I've heard of people supposedly making this work using methods to modify the *.cpp of the libraries themselves which is above and beyond my skill level, but I'm not looking to write my own TFT library here. I really just need to get text onto the screen, but I can't even find example code which doesn't throw up an error on literally every line that references TFT after the #include <TFT.h>
Also just to add: I have installed the libraries directly from zip using the regular method through the Arduino IDE application, and I did not overwrite the existing Arduino Standard TFT library in the process.
So basically: my question is: had anyone ever gotten this display to work with an Arduino?
EDIT: SOLUTION FOUND: I have it working after installing the SEEED-reccommended library to the libraries folder in /Program Files (x86)/... instead of the one in /documents. And renaming the existing standard TFT library to "TFT_OLD".