Have a shattered screen on a friends device. Insurance claim is going to run $100 to replace. Does anyone know a cheaper way to get a replacement screen installed?
You can get them for around $20 on amazon and its easy to do yourself. There are guides on youtube.
Check your local Craigslist, lots of guys in my area doing screens.
I'd do it myself. I talk apart my EVO plenty of times. Never replaced the screen but it'd be easy.
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Yep amazon ... Look for digitizer and watch YouTube video. Did mine no prob but took a little longer than it should have cause I didn't even have a blow dryer in my house so was holding it up to a lamp to help melt the adhesive lol ... Mine was totally shattered so it didn't pry out very easy
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Ask for a one-time courtesy replace on the screen. A nice technician (like myself ) should do it for you.
Any way to know which pin you have without opening it up?
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I was in the same boat but unfortunately I watched a video where the guy didn't use a heatgun or anything, but said you could slowly pop it out. Well, being my screen was already half shattered is was VERY difficult to remove(I think it had more adhesive then normal?) and ultimately, I messed the LCD so now I have a nice glass but can't see half my screen. LOL, you live and learn.
Also, what can be used to glue the digitizer and LCD back in place?
I went to a Sprint store with a repair center and the guy replaced it for free in 15 mins. Call around to see if a Sprint store has the part to fix it. It's only 100 dollars if it goes through the insurance. If they have the part, they will do it free.
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So I was pretty careless and dropped my N1 in work, landing perfectly on it's screen It still functions perfectly and the AMOLED screen hasn't been damaged, simply the digitizer. I've already ordered a new one with all the tools necessary to replace it, but I'm yet to find any definitive guide on replacing the N1 digitizer.
I came across thread #751923 (Can't post links as I'm new) which seems really helpful but a guide with pictures/video would be awesome. There's a 45 step youtube vid on how to replace it as well but the quality/clarity isn't great. I'm sure I can use both of these to replace it just fine, It just seems a little daunting.
Basically I'm looking for consolation along the lines of 'It's damn easy to fix' Any love for a fellow N1-er?
It is easy to fix. Two tips: don't use metal spatulas to pry the plastic under the battery off and gently wiggle and push the motherboard out only after disconnecting all the little connectors on it.
Im also waiting on my digitizer. I'm going to folllow these 2 guides.
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-One-Teardown/1654/1
http://cnn.cn/shop/google-nexus-digitizer-p-8252.html
Have done it and you actually found better tear-downs and tutorials. Use youtube as well. The videos help because they show the techniques as well. Hardest part i would have to say is sliding the motherboard out the bottom under the metal separator. I think it was great and taught me a lot about my phone. The thing you have to watch out for is dust and fingerprints under the screen. Once it's on...it's on, anything underneath is stuck lol. make sure it's all clean and you won't have any annoyances like dust particles like i have.
I did it, mostly successful. I damaged the cable to the trackball, so be careful at that step, otherwise nothing difficult, just takes an hour or so.
Cheers for the info and advice guys, should hopefully get my replacement digitizer tomorrow so I'll keep this thread updated with the outcome
I have replaced my digitizer. It cost me $45.00. It was challenging but not impossible. The hardest thing is not tearing any of the ribbons when dissasembling. It was a successful replacement. The only gripe I had was the digitizer I bought did not come with the adhesive to glue the digitizer to the frame. Make sure you have a way to attach the screen to the frame before you begin the process. Other than that it should be easy as long as you take your time.
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I replaced mine.. it took a solid hour or so, just be very careful not to tear any of the ribbon cables.. everything is super small and delicate.
I now get lots of dust in the corners of my screen because i didn't seal the new digitizer properly, but its not a huge deal to me.
replacing the digitizer is easy... its taking apart, and putting the rest back together that sucks. just make sure you know what length screw goes in what hole... very important. take notes as you disassemble.
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just make sure you know what length screw goes in what hole... very important. take notes as you disassemble.
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haha reminds me of when I took my laptop apart to re apply thermalpaste. I ended up with 7 extra screws >.< But the thing was together and has been running fine for the last 6 months so O.O
I did it, not too bad if you go slow and deliberately. I also have dust under my screen now. I sort of wish I would have just sent it to HTC but the money saved is worth a little dust.
A useful tip for disassembling is to cut out a paper template the same shape as your N1 and push the screws through it in positions corresponding to the screw holes in your N1. Its much easier to figure out where they all go when you come to reassembling it, just dont knock your template and screws on the floor .
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A useful tip for disassembling is to cut out a paper template the same shape as your N1 and push the screws through it in positions corresponding to the screw holes in your N1. Its much easier to figure out where they all go when you come to reassembling it, just dont knock your template and screws on the floor .
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That's a great idea, rob. I always think whenever I take apart a phone that I should have a video camera handy to record what I'm doing so I can play it in reverse when I'm putting it back together
For $115 you can send your phone back to HTC and have a QUALIFIED technician replace your screen.
Yes, it's a little more but you don't have to worry about messing anything else up and you're getting back your phone without any installation flaws.
Well I eventually got my digitizer this morning. It took until I had everything taken apart to realise they had sent me a compatible but ill fitting digitizer. It doesn't even have the appropriate buttons (it did in the selling image) at the bottom. At this point everything works fine but it doesn't look perfect. I guess it'll have to do, thanks for the advice guys
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For $115 you can send your phone back to HTC and have a QUALIFIED technician replace your screen.
Yes, it's a little more but you don't have to worry about messing anything else up and you're getting back your phone without any installation flaws.
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Wow thats cheap, I just got quoted for around $300US to fix my phones screen.. not including labor.. argh
Does anyone know if HTC in america repair phones from the other side of the world even though they were purchased from google's store?
I just sent my phone into HTC to be repaired for a cracked screen expecting it to be $115 and was pleasantly surprised to find that it would only be $55 including shipping! HTC was also extremely quick to get back with me for the quote. I sent the phone out Tuesday at 4pm and they have looked at it and quoted me the repair cost by Wednesday at 2 pm.
I recently cracked my digitalizer as well.
I called HTC 2 times without giving any information about myself before calling a 3rd time to do the actual swap.
I was quoted at $115 for me to send in my N1, wait a week without a phone, and have them replace the digitalizer, before shipping it back.
I then further inquired and found out they have a Swap program where they mail you a new(refurbished, but perfect) phone, and a FedEx label, which they still quoted me $115 to fix the screen, and a possible $275 if they needed to replace the logicboard, but they would get a quote back to me with all the things they would need to replace. It would require a $529 charge to my card, incase i didnt send the phone back at all.
I mentioned that my camera was broken, as well as my trackball was loose, and he said the quote would include this as well.
I called back a 3rd time, requested a swap phone, and had one 2 days later.
i mailed my phone into HTC, and two days later i had my quote.
I paid $55 after it was said and done, and have a new (refurbished) phone
I was rooted,unlocked, and running Kang-O-Rama 1.0 when i shipped the phone in. I didnt bother to fix that.
This is just general information for all who may have cracked or shattered your screen , Sprint will charge you a $100 deductible to fix or replace the screen if there is more then 2 cracks in it. This is nuts, just buy the screen and do it your self for $60 dollars.
Factory Screen Replacements
This is a well known problem as the screen will most likely crack when dropped.
Hope this helps out !!
Mine has some scratches on it bc I dropped it on asphalt, how hard would it be to replace the screen?
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Well I believe it is just a snap fit top as it does come with a pry tool for opening the case. I will confirm this later today as I am doing a screen replacement for a friend of mine.
I will report back later with the procedure.
I dropped my epic on tile, and the glass cracked. Touch Screen seems fine, and the LCD itself is okay too.
Most parts places seem to sell the glass and LCD/Digitizer as a package (for $80-$120), but I've found a place that sells just the glass/front cover for $45. Is there any reason not to get just the glass/cover without the LCD?
I have heard it was a little trickier than doing the assembly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905635
Speeder2000 said:
I dropped my epic on tile, and the glass cracked. Touch Screen seems fine, and the LCD itself is okay too.
Most parts places seem to sell the glass and LCD/Digitizer as a package (for $80-$120), but I've found a place that sells just the glass/front cover for $45. Is there any reason not to get just the glass/cover without the LCD?
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Not really the galss and digitiser are connected for better veiwing and you can't really get them apart.
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Speeder2000 said:
I dropped my epic on tile, and the glass cracked. Touch Screen seems fine, and the LCD itself is okay too.
Most parts places seem to sell the glass and LCD/Digitizer as a package (for $80-$120), but I've found a place that sells just the glass/front cover for $45. Is there any reason not to get just the glass/cover without the LCD?
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http://cnn.cn/shop/samsung-epic-digitizerlcd-unit-p-10021.html this is specifically what I ordered when I dropped mine, and you can't replace the glass separately as it is one piece with the digitizer and the LED unit. When I ordered mine it was $79 off this website, I suppose the price has gone up if you can find it for less you should do that. The screen took about 3 hours to replace my first time being careful and double checking everything. Use black RTV silicone to keep it in place - do not use any other adhesive. It's definitely a 8/10 in difficulty as it requires steady hands and patience up the ying yang.
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Not really the galss and digitiser are connected for better veiwing and you can't really get them apart.
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you're right, it's Cover + Digitizer, or Cover + Digitizer + LCD.
According to the thread linked above, getting one with LCD is much easier
I dropped my phone, and the glass cracked. I went to a sprint store, and I didn't have insurance. They fixed it for $35.
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I dropped my phone, and the glass cracked. I went to a sprint store, and I didn't have insurance. They fixed it for $35.
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lol, you posted right as i paid $70 for a front cover, and now i have to do it myself
omair2005 said:
I dropped my phone, and the glass cracked. I went to a sprint store, and I didn't have insurance. They fixed it for $35.
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How long have you been on contract?
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lol, you posted right as i paid $70 for a front cover, and now i have to do it myself
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You can probably cancel the order before it's shipped if you'd like to try the $35option.
Best bet imo. Repair stores are life savers.
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I dropped my phone, and the glass cracked. I went to a sprint store, and I didn't have insurance. They fixed it for $35.
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If you go to a store, make sure it's a repair center by searching for a nearby store on the sprint site.
I made the mistake of going into the nearest corporate store with my tp2 that would randomly think the keyboard had opened and subsequently unlock the phone in the pouch. The idiots at the store kept it for 3 hours and "recalibrated" the screen... it was a hardware problem, not software
When I busted the screen on my Epic, I found a Sprint store that was a repair center. ANY repair other than mainboard damage or water damage is a flat $35 for any phone. Kinda makes the idea of insurance worthless(already is with the deductible). They had a complete shell of an Epic with keyboard and screen, and simply swapped my mainboard into it. So, no activation or data loss/transfer.
Also, the replacement you ordered might be a cheap LCD instead of a SAMOLED like Samsung puts on the phone to start with.
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Also, the replacement you ordered might be a cheap LCD instead of a SAMOLED like Samsung puts on the phone to start with.
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Are u saying they are making LCD knock offs of super amoled screens for use in the Epic?
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Are u saying they are making LCD knock offs of super amoled screens for use in the Epic?
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I think it's certainly a possibility. A lot of the replacement screens on ebay and elsewhere claim to be LCD. I can't confirm that they're LCDs or SAMOLED, but I'd wonder.
no - you did the right thing by ordering it off ebay. I worked for sprint and back in september they started repairing phones for 35 bucks.. but on the epic, they changed their policy to NOT repair screens on the epic. they made me pay 100 dollars for a replacement even though i've been carrying the 7 dollar a month insurance, though i had a crack on my LCD.
i purchased the replacement from asurian for 100, bought the 80 dollar replacement screen, frankensteined that on to my old phone, sold the new one for 275
screw you sprint :l
tl;dr: sprint changes policies to throat ram customers yet again
Crack screens are not covered in store anymore with TEP or not per policy, some stores are more lenient. If you have TEP you have the option to file a claim through Asurion just like LD.
If you are going to try and do it yourself, I would suggest buying the TSP and screen together. The LED is so thin it is nearly impossible to take off w/o breaking it. I have yet to get one off w/o it breaking. The screens I have replaced, we always keep the 2 parts together as one.
Do you get to keep the broken phone or they take it for replacement in case of broken screen.
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What do you mean? When filing the Asurion claim? Or when we replace screen?
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Are u saying they are making LCD knock offs of super amoled screens for use in the Epic?
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cnn.cn's website advertised the epc replacement screen as an LCD - when i received it it was clearly LED and was the same exact screen as any other epic. There are many layers to an LCD screen that would be obvious upon first glance when compared to an amoled screen.
Two weeks ago I was leaving the office in a hurry and had an epic fail on my part. I put my laptop in the trunk and as I was closing it I managed to drop my keys in the trunk and my Epic landed screen down on the parking lot. From the sickening crunch that I heard I knew this was going to end badly. I picked up the phone and sure enough it had landed on a tiny piece of gravel that shattered the screen so now I was standing in with a broke phone and my keys locked in the trunk. I put a piece of packing tape on the screen to keep the pieces together until I could make it to the repair center. I dropped it off a couple of days later. They told me it would take a couple of hours to fix and I could pick it up later that day. When I picked it up I had a new screen and they even put on a new screen protector to “replace the one that I previously had”. I got a chuckle out of that since it was just a strip of packing tape. The big surprise was when I was told that I didn't owe anything. I didn't care what it was going to cost anyways because the phone is on a corporate business account so it wasn't going to cost me anything. I would hope that they extend the same kind of a courtesy to regular customers from time to time and not just large accounts
Please, no posts saying it cannot be done, it can.
If you do this as a service and are in or around London, please reply or PM me.
My S3 is "Amber Brown" (Unique to Phones4U I think) but I do not care if the replacement part is not this colour.
Cheers!
Heat gun and steady hand is all that's needed. Good luck.
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Please, no posts saying it cannot be done, it can.
If you do this as a service and are in or around London, please reply or PM me.
My S3 is "Amber Brown" (Unique to Phones4U I think) but I do not care if the replacement part is not this colour.
Cheers!
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You can normally get it done by a Samsung Service Centre.
http://www.samsung.com/uk/servicelocator/ find it here. They should quote you a price. Cheers.
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Yeah, I saw that from the video, and I am not too scared to mess with phones generally, but I am a little clumsy and as it is a screen, any slip of the knife would be catastrophic.(Plus I had a penknife close on me not so long ago, badly cutting my finger and knives still freak me out a bit)
Would happily pay someone £50 to do this for me, but no way I am paying £200 to replace a perfectly good LCD.
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You can normally get it done by a Samsung Service Centre.
http://www.samsung.com/uk/servicelocator/ find it here. They should quote you a price. Cheers.
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I did ask in the samsung centre in Tottenham Court Road and they seemed to think that the LCD needed replacing too, maybe I should try some more Samsung service centres because keeping the warranty would be nice as it is only a week old
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I did ask in the samsung centre in Tottenham Court Road and they seemed to think that the LCD needed replacing too, maybe I should try some more Samsung service centres because keeping the warranty would be nice as it is only a week old
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No service center will replace the glass, they all change the whole screen.
I advice keeping the warranty and paying the 200, you won't regret it.
People that changed the glass (including my friend) all had it perfect, then it started lifting an air bubbles covered some parts of the screen, i know others that cracked the actual LCD when trying to change the glass.
The glass can be replaced easily. I've done it on my s3 and I can tell you that geting the broken glass off is a piece of cake. Just use a heat gun and a few guitar picks,work arround the edges and make sure that you maintain the screen hot, heating it up with the heat gun so that the adhesive is warm and softened the whole time.
The glass itself is made out of two layers, first layer is the transparent glass and under the glass there is a plastic layer that gives the glass its color.you want to stick the guitar pick under the second layer, stick a half of the pick under the glass and start applying preasure on the part of the pick that sticks out of the glass. Push the pick down, towards the table and the glass will start to get off. Use multiple guitar picks on multiple parts of the glass to make sure you dont brake the screen.
The hardest part of reinstalling the glass is getting it on without any dust between the lcd and the glass. Use the 3M adhesive sticke (ebay) precisely cut for the s3 and clean the adhesive on the housing and the LCD with which the original glass was glued. That's it, good luck!
Sorry mate, wish I could help. Good luck getting it replaced!
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GENUINE-O...cement_Parts_Tools&hash=item3f1e335896&_uhb=1
Next best option ...
I have found someone in the UK who offers this as a service, but he also offers an international service
ebay link:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Service-t...K_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item2ec2624d7d
His YouTube vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHib-yptAQk&feature=youtu.be
I have no experience of using ebay for repair services which require sending the device off though, so I am cautious here. Am investigating if ebay offer any cover for scams etc.
I will post back here with my experiences.
hey guys anyone found a way to remove lcd from frame on Samsung s3
Think you heart the front lightly and get a tool to lift it out, then use a credit card to scrape underneath
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hey guys anyone found a way to remove lcd from frame on Samsung s3
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As the LCD isn't available as a replacement part why bother?
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There's no lcd anyway
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Hey,
I don't know how or why, but my screen got a pretty annoying knick in the glass. I think I left it on a desk and someone came and threw their bag dirty backpack on the desk on a little rock or metal bit from their bag scratched the screen.
I'm wondering if anyone knows how or where I can get the glass replaced. I was looking around the forum and people were saying the screen itself costs like $400 in repairs, but I don't need the LCD replaced, just the front glass pane.
PS. I am in Canada, on Rogers.
There is a youtube guy that has his own repair facility. Tech md. I have no clue how reliable he is or how good his work is but i was watching one of his repair videos the other day and i believe he said he would repair any galaxy glass for 100 as long as u mention his video. Just someone u might look into
Go to your local mall, there are always booths for phone repairs of popular phones.
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I'd live with the scratch if it's gonna cost hundreds of dollars, which it will. .02$