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This problem is really stumping me. I made a simple printed circuit board with an ATtiny85, a 128x64 I2C OLED display, and a Sharp IR analog distance sensor. You can view the circuit here: circuits.io.

If I turn the system on using the simple 3-pin slide switch that I put on the board, the screen does not turn on. I can see that the system is powered though, because I can see a little bit of red light escaping from the IR sensor where some of the IR light borders on the visible end of the spectrum. If I turn the board off then immediately turn it back on, the display powers up just fine. If I upload a new program to the board and use the programmer's 3.3v power I don't need to do it twice - the screen works first time.

I'm using a 3.7v LiPo battery, so I know power is not an issue (everything is 3-5v tolerant, and the LiPo battery can deliver plenty of current). Why do I need to turn it on twice in order for the screen to work? Thanks!

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    Add a delay at the start of your program before you initialise the display. It sounds like the display is taking a moment to charge its capacitors and become ready.
    – Majenko
    Dec 5, 2016 at 12:23
  • @Majenko Awesome, thanks. A 100ms delay before starting the screen solved it nicely
    – Alex Wulff
    Dec 5, 2016 at 22:43

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Adding a 100ms delay before calling oled.init(0x3c); oled.clear(); oled.startScreen(); made this problem go away.

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