I have seen a few posts of this fault. none of those helped. I have tried using the Adafruit library and ran the graphics code. I managed to get the opening test data back with the following results. I am using a Nano and tried several of them.
Display Power Mode: 0x94
MADCTL Mode: 0x48
Pixel Format: 0x5
Image Format: 0x80
Self Diagnostic: 0xC0
This would suggest that the wiring is correct. Hopefully the returned data is correct. After this there is a slight dimming of the display but then back to full white screen. I have also tried sever other libraries with the same result. Some wouldn't compile crashing on the SPI calls.
Hopefully someone has had the same results and can help me out with this.
Thanks for any help.