Hello,
I currently have a HTC Magic with a Vodafone cover, and I recently bought a new cover without the Vodafone logo.
Yesterday I disassembled my Magic to put on the new cover, but after a while I found out that the new cover (that I bought on eBay) doesn't have any metal screw holes that fit the screws. There are only plastic holes where the metal screw holes are usually in.
Is there some way to get new screw holes? I have already tried to transfer the screw holes from my old Vodafone cover, but they seem to be glued in to the housing.
I hope someone can help me out!
Thanks in advance!
I recently replaced the front cover on mine, if yours does not have the metal screw housings, you're either going to have to find a way to get them out of the old cover, or you are just going to have to return it.
Lol, I did this on my G1, but same problem for the magic.
What I did was take a small metal punch and heat it up. I then punched out the old brass screw fitting from the old phone housing. It took a couple tries, but I got the right temp so I didn't set the thing on fire. Once I had them out, I cleaned off a bit of the melted plastic that was on them. That was easy enough.
Then, I gently set the brass fittings into the holes in the new housing. They will rest level in holes. Then I heated up a steak knife until it was rather hot. I then GENTLY held the knife level against the brass without touching the plastic and in about 5 seconds the brass fitting was hot enough to start melting the plastic and it started sliding into the hole. I sunk the fitting in until it was level with the plastic rim. On one I went to far and melted the plastic a bit, but when I put it back together, it worked well enough.
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I just got this cheap casing for my nexus one, but after an entire day of use it left stains on the back of my case, the rough teflon-like part of it. I cant seem to remove it with rubbing alcohol. It seems like it got rubbed into the surface. Is there any way i can remove them? :\
Put transparent tape on the front speaker and put a snap on cover case which covers the small gaps aroud the screen no dust can come in then, speaker can be heard even with the tape. And for the bottom gap also put tape to seal it since the snap on case don't cover that area and that's it folks how can dust get under the screen now that all gaps are seal. I'm gonna try this when my replacement comes in and try it and let me know how it works for you
Eh... The screens are sealed unless something happens to them. So if you have lots of dust under your screen... just get it replace. HTC will be more than happy to do so if you've got tons of dust under there.
So I dropped my vibrant and the bezel on the left side came off and there is a large bump in the bezel now. I think the plastic tips on the bezel that hold it to the screen broke off. Any tips? How much would this cost to repair?
PS: Superglue will not work as the bezel will simply not touch the screen at all.
http://www.globaldirectparts.com/Samsung-i9000-Housing-p/smsng6087190.htm
new bezel, new full housing. it is for a i9000 not a vibrant but considering they are identical internally i believe it would fit just fine.
Can't tell from your description, but it may be that one of the clips that holds the bezel down has popped out (but not broken) and is bottomed-out on the plastic surface adjacent to where these clips feed through.
I noticed that this can happen the last time I tore mine apart.
If this is the case, you can pop it back in by removing the back cover screws and sliding the back cover off with a guitar pick, etc (there are lots of teardown videos on YouTube). Once that's off you should be able to see the clips and determine if it's just popped out or busted off.
As a photographer, I especially apologize for the lack of photos of the process... this is a story of my S5 getting broken and repaired.
I left my S5 on the hood of my girlfriends Jeep while cleaning up the dog's feet and being distracted, I forgot to grab my phone. Driving down the canyon road 50mph back home, noticed something thunk off of the front of the car... yep it was my phone. It was in an Otterbox Defender series case.
Upon inspection, I was very impressed to find the phone in very good condition. The front glass totally unbroken with no scratches, the only visible damage was a scuff on the chrome of the top right corner and what looked like a tread mark from the tire. The otterbox case looked very good as well, it took some damage where the tire marks were on the upper right.
The phone's internal display took too much shock/flex and was shattered but still hard a partially visible image and the digitizer worked fine. I ordered a new display around $150, it came with a pre-installed homebutton/fingerprint scanner module. The display I ordered was pre-owned in a+ condition, so it had the old factory adhesives stuck to it.
I removed the small plastic cover on the rear to unplug the home-button cable, removed the old display using a heatgun to ease up the adhesive and it come off pretty smoothly (start at the top from the earpiece), you have plenty of room to get tools behind the screen to unplug the display's flex cable and pull the home-button's cable free.
I was impressed in how well adhered the glass is and how the home-button works, very waterproof design. The metal frame has a texture etched into it to promote even better adhesion.
-I carefully removed the old adhesive from the new display and from the frame. I used alcohol and microfiber rags and took my time, both parts come very clean with some fingernail force and patience. I applied the new adhesive, this part was very easy, the applicator-design the adhesive comes packaged in makes it a breeze to line up and entirely avoid wrinkles or mishaps. I'll link what adhesive I used, it seemed to be factory OEM and ridiculously sticky stuff, several times more powerful and pliable than the 3m strip-tape.
I made a double-check that the frame adhesion area was clean and began to hook the connectors back up, plugged the home button and LCD connector back in, I started applying the screen from the earpiece (earpiece metal fits through the hole in the glass to make lining up perfectly easy. and pressed the entire display into place. Bam, brand new. That adhesive WORKS perfectly. It grabs and holds, very tight. I feel very confident that the phone still carries its same waterproof spec.
I hope this helps any others with broken screens that want to bring their S5 back to life and to be unafraid to dig into this yourself.
Tips:
-You can likely use a hair dryer to heat up the old display when removing, feel it with your hands, don't get it so hot that you can't keep your fingers on it for a few seconds, you don't want to damage your earpiece, front sensors, camera, etc.
-When removing the old adhesive from a good-used display, use plastic to scrape at it, metal will remove the black dye and make scratched in the bezel around the screen.
-The capacitive sensors for Recents and Back have tabs that allow you to push them into the frame of the phone before applying the new screen, makes it much easier to align and worry-free.
The adhesive comes from Ebay seller diy_iparts "Pre-Cut Adhesive Tape for Samsung Galaxy S5"
(unsure if I'm allowed to post direct links to ebay) I am giving you this information because I read that a lot of pre-cut adhesives from other sources are bad quality and not up to OEM spec, made of totally different materials, etc. This won't matter too much if you aren't worried about the water resistance of your phone and the display sitting perfectly flush to the frame.
Hi.
I have cracked the rear battery glass cover again on my S8. Its the forth time it happens. And I don't know why.
I have bought genuine battery glass covers from ebay. But it doesn't hold long before the glass cracks again.
Does anyone know if there is an reinforced (maybe aluminium or carbon)?
(Sorry for my bad english)
try putting a skin on it. https://dbrand.com/shop/samsung-galaxy-s8-skins they look nice and should work like a screen protector on it.
Make sure you are taking off the foam part of the sticky part they put on it. The glass should fit flush against the back with the thin thin layer of adhesive they put. My mistake and I cracked the first one because it flexed.
@Class said:
Make sure you are taking off the foam part of the sticky part they put on it. The glass should fit flush against the back with the thin thin layer of adhesive they put. My mistake and I cracked the first one because it flexed.
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What foam? I only took plastic of the adhesive tape that was already applied on the cover. Then placed the cover on the phone
This cover: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-Sa...271993&hash=item33d35abcf9:g:iZoAAOSwBEpZnZvO