White screen - HW issue or not?  Fix?

A couple of days ago, my iPhone's screen went entirely white.  It's a 3GS.
I'm thiking some hardware failed, but that's not entirely true.  If I reboot it, I see the normal black background, white apple logo.  Then it comes up and I see my normal lock screen.  If I manage to unlock it before it times out and powers off, it works fine.
I can go from app to app just fine.  Because I was tryng to install the latest firmware to see if it'd fix the problem, I used it for quite some time (over 30 minutes) to delete pictures to free up space.  So it's not an overheating thing from too much use thing. It was fine.
But as soon as it goes into sleep mode and powers down, when I try to bring it back up, white screen.
I can repeat the reboot (which takes over 2 minutes) and get back to a phone I can see, but that is annoying and takes a long time.
I didn't install any new software (unless updates are going on without me knowing).  But since the problem occurred I have installed the latest firmware.  It still doesn't fix the problem.
One assumes that if I'm using the same software, it would operate the same and I wouldn't have an issue.  So it must be hardware.  But it does work under the right circumstances (reboot, keep from going into sleep mode).  So it looks like the hardware is OK.  So why is this happening.  Only thing I can think is that it is hardware.  And the software is doing something different on wake-up than it does when it reboots, and that is where the failed hardware comes in and triggers the white screen.
Any ideas what it could be?  How to fix it?
Note, this may not be the original screen.  I had ordered several used iPhones to replace my old one and for my kids.  I remember swapping out one screen because it was dim and had a different texture.  May or may not have been for my iPhone.  Whichever phone it was, it's been working since about Christmas 2012. If there were any HW incompatabilities, I would think they'd show up before now.
Thank you for any info.

Took it to a cell phone repair place.  They replaced the LCD screen.  Works fine now.

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