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Replacement Screen

Hi guys, I cracked my screen today, I was wondering which one will save me more money? ordering a new screen and fitting it my self or going down to a phone shop and get it done?
Where is the cheapest place to get a replacement screen from (in the uk)
Thanks.

pod8 said:
Hi guys, I cracked my screen today, I was wondering which one will save me more money? ordering a new screen and fitting it my self or going down to a phone shop and get it done?
Where is the cheapest place to get a replacement screen from (in the uk)
Thanks.
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I think it was user ygeller that reported he could only find two places in UK that would replace screen at £150. In which case cheaper/but possibly riskier to do it yourself.
these threads you may or may not have seen already:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=288385&page=2&highlight=replacement
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=291793&highlight=screen+replacement
Mike

Great, so my phone is basically a door stop untill i can get it fixed, im sure not going to try and get HTC to fix it 150 is crazy, i think i will buy a screen somewhere and do it my self, after all i did manage to mod my xbox 360 up with neon lights
Any direct links to good sites that sells screens as a low price?
Cheers.

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Took it to carphonewarehouse, they charged me £40 for replacment, they said if it cost more then they would pay the difference on top of the 40, good deal eh?

40 is a pretty good deal! My digitizer was going out so I bought a new one, anyone know how hard it is to replace? I already took the phone apart and the screen is off. How do I take the digitizer off?

MilanoRex said:
40 is a pretty good deal! My digitizer was going out so I bought a new one, anyone know how hard it is to replace? I already took the phone apart and the screen is off. How do I take the digitizer off?
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yup 40 is a very good deal, i was shocked when he said it cost 40!
Btw, whats a digitizer?

pod8 said:
Took it to carphonewarehouse, they charged me £40 for replacment, they said if it cost more then they would pay the difference on top of the 40, good deal eh?
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same with vodafone UK for me. £40.

pod8 said:
yup 40 is a very good deal, i was shocked when he said it cost 40!
Btw, whats a digitizer?
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This is the Digitizer
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Very simply put it converts the screen taps from the screen into an electrical signal equivalent to a "grid reference" signal based on xy axes.
Mike

i cracked mine too cost €140 @ http://www.solid-vision.com/ in the Netherlands and it took 4 days...

oostr048 said:
i cracked mine too cost €140 @ http://www.solid-vision.com/ in the Netherlands and it took 4 days...
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Be careful with the previous reply web link. I had a virus warning popup when I clicked on it. Don't let it happen to you.

Not that it helps you guys in the UK, but I got a screen/digitizer from a seller on eBay in the US for 89 USD.
My digitizer is cracked, but the LCD is fine it's a pain to use in this condition but it gets me by.
I will try to do the screen swap tommorow.

Just got done with the replacement. Wasn't that bad at all. I would've been done in about 20 minutes, but I had a dreaded white screen with no display that freaked me out. Then I remembered a connector not seeming to fit correctly.
Disassembled and reassembled and I am back in business.
For future reference, the bottom connector in this picture:
You need to make sure sits correctly.
Here is the auction for the screen I got from a seller in California.
http://cgi.ebay.com/HTC-TyTN-Cingular-8525-JasJam-Hermes-LCD-and-Digitzer_W0QQitemZ270108645683QQihZ017QQcategoryZ41343QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem
Hope this helps save someone some money!

cracked screen

Today I broke my HD2 screen
Anyone knows if are outside guides to change the screen like hd2 official service guides and any shop that sell "cheap" (compared to official service) hd2 screens?
thanks for all

Sorry for your broken HD2...
May I ask, how did you manage to break it? I'm asking because it might give us a sense on how fragile these things are.

Sorry for your HD2.
Anyway, how you broke it?

WOW!How did you did that?
Sorry for your screen!
Maybe this could help --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=405566

I use the phone as an alarm clock.
When sounded, I took it to shut it down and I dropped into bed. When going to pick it up accidentally leaned on the screen by making some pressure and I broke it

kersh said:
I use the phone as an alarm clock.
When sounded, I took it to shut it down and I dropped into bed. When going to pick it up accidentally leaned on the screen by making some pressure and I broke it
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Can you share picture with us?
Last night @ the Disco, my HD2 felt out of my hand Iw ould say 150cm above the ground, and it felt down a hard rock floor.
The back cover battery and phones were out, but no dmg thank god!

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Damn! I'm sure it shouldn't be too hard to replace, but if you don't think you can do it yourself better get someone else to do it! It will end up being cheaper than having to replace the whole phone

Hmmm . . .
pympster said:
Damn! I'm sure it shouldn't be too hard to replace, but if you don't think you can do it yourself better get someone else to do it! It will end up being cheaper than having to replace the whole phone
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Doesnt the screen have some electronics embeded into it ?

kersh said:
http://i49.tinypic.com/205a2...
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It (almost phisically) hurts to see this

Som30ne said:
Doesnt the screen have some electronics embeded into it ?
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With most phones the screen is separate from the main board and chipsets etc. As far as I am aware usually the screen will be screwed in but not embedded into it. Though I could be wrong!!..... Just hoping to give some optimism

The screen is replaceable. You're not so lucky, man
Well, seeing this image actually hurts directly to my heart!
Anyway, search on eBay, but I don't think that there is any replacement part as the phone is completely new.

I did the same just now, except it's not the actual glass that's broken but it looks like the screen underneath. That however is completely shot, again, anybody know if it's possible to replace this?

And for those interested, pictures.
Result after dropping from about chest hight on the ground.

alfheim97 said:
And for those interested, pictures.
Result after dropping from about chest hight on the ground.
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DAAAYYUUMm

Repost, sorry

Mine's back with the service repair centre in the UK for a cracked screen and have just had my quote for repair £118.
No one else seems to have the spares.
The screen itself and surround was quoted at £78 labour £22, and the rest is for delivery.
The service centre isn't the quickest it's taken them a week from receiving the phone to give me a quote and then it's 5 days after you pay for them to fix the phone and test the software.
Luckily the insurance is paying

i can't believe!!!!!
i cracked my screen too!!
it falls down from 50 centimeters and the glass cracked in 1000 pieces!! i'll post the picture soon.
tomorrow i'm going to call the italian call center ..

Ouch!
Got my HD2 yesterday, now it has a hairline crack in the screen about 1cm long - don't know how - it's only been in a jacket pocket and car cradle.
Screen too weak?
Edit: O2 shop said it's a scratch not a crack - so much for scratch resistant glass.

kersh said:
Today I broke my HD2 screen
Anyone knows if are outside guides to change the screen like hd2 official service guides and any shop that sell "cheap" (compared to official service) hd2 screens?
thanks for all
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this is really sad!

G1 with broken screen (under warranty)

I just bought a G1 with a broken screen on ebay to swap the mobo with my brick. The broken phone looks great except for that crack, so I decided to see if the warranty was still good. It is still under warranty for another 1.5 weeks!
So the idea is this. HTC will not repair broken screens..
But what if I intentionally brick the broken screen device and send it in for repair claiming OTA error? Will they throw in a fixed screen while they are replacing the mobo? Is it worth trying?? I'm thinking I could then just sell my brick or wait to sell it when they are un-brickable, to recoup the cost of one of the Dreams.
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Anyone have experience here with HTC's warranty?

I have used HTC for warranty work and they were top-notch. However, I doubt they would cover it (the brick) as the damage was more than likely caused by impact, and impact damage is not covered.
Why didnt you send the bricked G1 in? It should be covered (assuming your not at the end of its warranty)

Sadly, the warranty ended about a week before I bricked it. It ended on 12.25.
Merry Christmas to me!

You have two broken phones and nothing to lose. Why don't you try dissasembling both and transplanting the top/screen assembly from the brick to the eBay purchase?

Actually they do fix bricks, I accidently bricked mine said "that it was doing an update and I left it overnight and in the morning it had the g1 logo only" and they replaced the mobo without more questions.
However they didn't replace the slightly damaged case so you might just be wasting your time.. worth a shot though.
I bricked it by flashing danger spl and radio wrong silly me

I'm aware that they fix bricks, but the bricked G1 is unfortunately the one with no warranty.
Transplanting the screen sounds like it would void the warranty because I would have to break the seal on both phones. Otherwise this would be ideal, because I could fix the screen and not worry about the hidden charge HTC would apply for a mandatory screen replacement.
Right now I've run into yet another set-back. I'm not a T-Mo customer and the phone is not unlocked. (I've never had a locked phone so I forgot they even existed when I picked up this one for repair )
If any nice T-Mo customer reads this, can you get me an unlock code from T-Mo if I provide my IMEI in a PM?

To get an unlock code you would need to pay £15 to t-mob.
There are services online though.

You can swap parts to your hearts desire, just make sure you do it cleanly. The one I sent back was a black case with guts from a bronze one and I was never even questioned about it. Just make sure they know you bought it from Craigslsit or eBay as-is.

It sounds like you are not in the US so it may be different for you but on my phone the Home button stopped working. I returned it to the original OS and then sent it in for repair. They stated that when I send it in for repair that if the phone had a broken screen or water damage that I would be charged a fee for the repair. I don't recall was it was because I wasn't charged this as my screen was fine and didn't have a water issue. I seem to think that the fee was $50-100 something like that. I didn't think it was that bad. As far as my issue. I have no idea if I got my phone back or a refurb.

I'm in the US and I was told that T-Mo has to tell the unlock code to anyone that has service with them as long as the IMEI is provided. Hopefully I can make friends with someone on T-Mo service.
The warranty seemed like a long shot so I swapped the guts of the working machine and the nonworking one. Now I have a cracked (but working!) screened brick and a locked non-cracked phone. The new screen price according to an HTC rep was about 230 I believe, which is a whole other annoyance. As soon as I get this new bad boy unlocked I'm going to re-root.
Sadly, until then I can only use it on the wi-fi I was able to setup thanks to adb.

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Broken LEO Screen

I think i broked my display today. It is all just purple and gray lines when display is turned on and few one looking like cracks. When i turn off the display i do not see anything like that. I wonder is it physical or there is some hope left?

sounds like you broke the actual lcd display, and not the glass front.
All the usual suggestions, try a hard reset then different rom of course, just in case it is software, but it doesnt sound good.
Broke my glass (not the lcd, phew) saturday night just gone gutted. Theyre only £35 or so, tho, so i think im gonna have a go at changing it myself. I think the lcd's are about the same but its kinda hard to tell which is which on ebay.i

How much is new lcd? I am asumming they will rip me off if i send it in official htc service?

couldnt say. i tried speaking to O2 about a paid repair, they just spieled teh usual guff, no info. not contacted htc directly yet.
As for price, its hard to tell, do a search on ebay, and i found lcd for 30 something, and glass/digitizer for 30 something, but i also saw lcd for 120 or so, so maybe teh one i saw was the worng item, heh, who knows. Not had a proper indepth look yet, though.

I will try to contact my official service in Croatia so I will tell the price or i will try with ebay.

my hd2 looks so sad with selotape protecting the cracks. ;(

I had to get a dropped HD2 repaired the other day..
was charged $368 to replace the cracked glass by the Australian authorized HTC repairer , phone was still functioning.

LCD complete with the digitizer (touchscreen) glass is about $250 itself. It is almost impossible to change the LCD separately from "digitizer" even in service lab.
JFYI, cnn.cn/shop/htc-hd2-c-277_948.html here it is.

That is too expansive. I dont really now right now what to do ,should i repair it or not

They said at my offical service(in Croatia) that it is something about 240 $ . They said that you cant buy lcd without touchscreen (probably digitizer? )..

Will this work?
http://cgi.ebay.com/US-LCD-DISPLAY-...872974?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item4cf0f17ece

that's the one,(unless you have a tmous)
well, it should be, insert usual "its not my fault if its wrong" get out clause here.

Ok. And what about digitezer (or what ever it is called) thing ? Dont I need that too?

for that price you can buy a new hd2...lol

the_bulk said:
Ok. And what about digitezer (or what ever it is called) thing ? Dont I need that too?
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didnt you say touch still works? and screen isnt cracked? so no, BUT, the digi/screen and teh lcd are bonded together, and you gotta bake them for 10 mins at 50 deg to seperate them, , and so how do we bond them back together,,, heh. in which case a whole lcd/digi/glass would be best, but i bet theyre expensive. (Thats how theyd do it at htc repairs, just swap out teh whole thing as a single item)

I would look for a used hd2 to buy. Might be cheaper.

waiting for an apple fan boy to come along and say "htc sux and apple is the best ever" LOL
ive seen videos of people repairing their own cracked screens. Personally I would NOT do it for myself. I would rather get a new HD2 or an entirely different phone. Thats why i keep my previous phone(s) as backups in case of such event!

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78apb said:
LCD complete with the digitizer (touchscreen) glass is about $250 itself. It is almost impossible to change the LCD separately from "digitizer" even in service lab.
JFYI, cnn.cn/shop/htc-hd2-c-277_948.html here it is.
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really? i changed 2 lcd's separately from the digitizer and it gave me no problems at all

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Did you drop it or have it in the pocket of your skinny jeans?

A500 LCD screen cracked, everything else is fine.

Bought this about 10 days ago. Its been in its case since i brought it home. Hasn't left the house and it sits on my computer desk when I'm not using it. I live alone so no one else could have touched it. I haven't dropped it, sat on it, or used it as a frisbee.
I went to turn it on to show a friend and I found my screen like this:
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The digitizer itself is fine. Touch screen works perfect and I can still do everything. No scratches on the body, no signs of anything on the case. Any idea what could cause this? I find it weird this would happen. Of course it has to be the most expensive part of the tablet.
Could I try taking it back to Best Buy and see if I can get it exchanged? Try doing a warranty claim through Acer? Or am I SOL and have to buy a new one? I'd replace the LCD myself but I did not find any replacement screens available yet.

I'm thinking somehow I may have flexed it a little bit, dont know how but I read that being a possibility. I didnt buy any accidental coverage through Best Buy. But I can still do Squaretrade, but would need to wait 30 days before I could file a claim.

If you paid with cc check with your cc company most good cards especially amex cover 90 days of theft damage. I buy all my electronics with my amex because of 90 day accidental damage and theft protection and they double manufacturers warranty up to a year. Very easy to file a claim much easier than my mastercard. Good luck.

Should have said I paid with my banks Visa Debit Card

That sucks
I dropped my Iconia down the stairs 2 months ago and almost crapped myself. It went in movie like slow motion. I bought the device from amazon and had only had it 3 days at the time. I told the guy what happened and have a great buying track record with amazon and they returned it and shipped out a new one as soon as they got posetion. Sorry for your trouble. The only thing I can say is try to find a new screen or "bricked" device on ebay. I grabbed one for my wife for $210.00 on ebay and all I had to do was recover the device.
Good luck

pumpkyn said:
Bought this about 10 days ago...
Could I try taking it back to Best Buy and see if I can get it exchanged? Try doing a warranty claim through Acer? Or am I SOL and have to buy a new one? I'd replace the LCD myself but I did not find any replacement screens available yet.
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Go back to Best Buy. Leave the tablet at home.
Find the rep who sold it to you. Tell him your wife/husband/etc though it would be a good idea to get the BB insurance because you have kids/dog/nephews/etc in the house.
The rep gets perks for selling those insurance plans. He/she should be more than willing to ring one up for you since you're within 14 days. Should cost you about $100.
Then, magically, bring it back to the Geek Squad a few days later and have it sent for repairs. Most likely, like mine, they'll call you and let you come by and pick up a new one.

Thanks for the suggestion, I work with 4 people who used to work at Best Buy and they said all the managers in my area are experienced 5+ years and would want to see the device before they would do it
Looks like I'll be buying SquareTrade and wait til mid-October before I file a claim.