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Replace Touch screen

Hello,
i have a cigarette dropped on my touch screen and want a replacement screen for it. Where can i buy one ?
i have bought this: http://mobile.brando.com/htc-touch-diamond-2-replacement-lcd-display_p04369c0696d088.html
but this is the lcd, not the touch screen ???

you have to buy digitizer something like that

prdic said:
you have to buy digitizer something like that
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Exactly....But the touch screen digitizer is very hard to replace. I have taken mine apart only to find it near impossible to replace without damaging the rest of the phone. I only wanted to replace the housing, but you must replace the housing and digitizer together.
NOTE: If you attempt this, remember to remove the stickers over the little ribbon cables before sliding them out. Found that one out the hard way.
Your best bet would be to send it to hTc for a repair. I really wouldn't risk it if I were you... I only did because I have trianing in electronics.

oh ok, any ideas of the costs when sending it to a repair center ?

The repair cost me 157 euros for replacing the housing and touchscreen sensor.

And if you want to prevent further costs with such issues .... uh ... quit smoking

[Q] hd2 digitizers/LCD

Hi ya maties,
iv picked up a hd2 that turns on but no touch screen nor the buttons on the bottom work,
so i took it apart and first off, noticed that there was sticky tape on the digitizer,
and realized someone has tried to fix this, what my question is, i have included a photo of the back of the LCD screen and the connecter to the digitizer,
am i right in thinking that who ever tried to fix this, irst, didnt know what they were doing, and secondly didnt buy the right LCD / digitizer combo, as i have found out that there are two diff digitizers and lcds? anyways any insight would be great, as this i think is a pretty straight fix,
Cheers
Oliver

I happen to be going thru an lcd/digitizer replacement myself. It looks like the previous owner did in fact get a mismatched lcd digitizer combo. The digitizer in that photo is the European weld on type, and will need to be soldered to a matching lcd. The lcd in that pic is the American version and needs only to make the ribbon connection.
Cheers

hey thanks for that, i thought i was going crazy when i couldnt find out what the clip on the back of the lcd was for, the idiot who tried fixing it used sticky tape to stick it to the back of the lcd in hopes of it working. lol, anyways the other thing is the membrain for the buttons at the bottom are broken, is there a web site that sells the membrian?
cheers
Oliver

Your best bet would be to look on eBay for a broken hd2 for parts
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

i actually have an lcd and digitizer screen that I may let go at a good price..not to mention 2 phones worth of misc parts/mother board, chassis, etc...
let me know

Do you guys know if you can swap in a AU Telstra HD2 (T9193) main board into a US TMO HD2 (T8585) digitizer and shell? My digitizer quit and I want to get up and running asap.

Anyone know?

Q:HD2 stop working lcd after crash

Hello, can somebody help me ?, One day my hd2 fall on the floor and my digitizer crash, after that phone works well i had only few cracks on the sreen, 2 months later my phone fall second time but only from low-altitude on the floor. and my lcd stop work phone only vibrate and boot sound works but the lcd is black.do you think is somethink wrong with lcd or with motherboard ??? thanks a lot

It is the LCD, it has stopped working. Your digitizer may have stopped working too but you have no way of knowing this though as the LCD is not working. You can get a replacemeant digitizer and LCD that are already connected to repaiar it with. Do a search or have a good look through the threads in the back pages here and you will find a good bit of threads on people that have done this and go to Youtube and have a search there as it is some great DIY videos on doing this on there.

my digitizer gone away in first crash i dissamble it and best place for buy is ebay ? everything here is CE china export D

Macoko said:
my digitizer gone away in first crash i dissamble it and best place for buy is ebay ? everything here is CE china export D
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Yeah ebay will probably be the best place to get replacement components. And just a tip the Euroupean HD2 and T-Mobile HD2 replacement digitzer and LCD combos will fitt in either version of the HD2. But the T-Mobile ones do not have to me soldered to the main board and the Euroupean ones do have to be soldered. Now I do not know if the connector on the ribbon of the T-Mobile ones will be able to plug in to the Eroupean ones as i do not know if they have the resiprocating connector on the main board of the Eroupean models.

i have european version(non-us) P/N 60H00295-00P with ribbon wich need soldering digitizer so i look on ebay.but still i have care about motherboard:/

T-Macgnolia said:
Yeah ebay will probably be the best place to get replacement components. And just a tip the Euroupean HD2 and T-Mobile HD2 replacement digitzer and LCD combos will fitt in either version of the HD2. But the T-Mobile ones do not have to me soldered to the main board and the Euroupean ones do have to be soldered. Now I do not know if the connector on the ribbon of the T-Mobile ones will be able to plug in to the Eroupean ones as i do not know if they have the resiprocating connector on the main board of the Eroupean models.
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Not true!
T-mobile touch is connected to LCD through small connector and European version HD2 touch have to be soldered to LCD, but BOTH versions of 'LCD+touch combo' are connected to M/B through connector, no soldering is needed at all!

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Not true!
T-mobile touch is connected to LCD through small connector and European version HD2 touch have to be soldered to LCD, but BOTH versions of 'LCD+touch combo' are connected to M/B through connector, no soldering is needed at all!
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You may just be right my friend, it does look as if they both have the connector for the Main board. The combos come with the LCD and the digitizer already together, so yes there is no need for soldering. I was under the impression it was not his way. I will do further checking into this later as I just pulled up like 10 different sites but none show a picture that is conclusive enough for me to say for sure but good catch there pvii.

T-Macgnolia said:
You may just be right my friend, it does look as if they both have the connector for the Main board. The combos come with the LCD and the digitizer already together, so yes there is no need for soldering. I was under the impression it was not his way. I will do further checking into this later as I just pulled up like 10 different sites but none show a picture that is conclusive enough for me to say for sure but good catch there pvii.
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More of that, cable and connectors have the same size and pin nimber, seems that they are interchangeable (LCM+digitizer assembly of course). Motherboards have the same size and shape too, NAND is the only difference I could observe.

[Q] hd2 flex cable

Hello , my volume buttons have stopped working , i have opened it and seen that i need a new flex cable , my hd2 version is tmous 1024mb , on ebay i only have seen T8585 flex cable.
It will be good for my model? because i havent seen different flex for my model anywhere and i think it will be good. Just need to be sure. Sorry for my bad english

i think they use same cables but i'm not sure.just google it

Found nothing on google. Anyone can help with this. i think i will order it , because i cannot found flex for tmous.

Wait! They don't use the same flex cables, the Euro and Tmous versions have different motherboards, cases and flex cables! I work on them ALL THE TIME.

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Wait! They don't use the same flex cables, the Euro and Tmous versions have different motherboards, cases and flex cables! I work on them ALL THE TIME.
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They USE THE SAME flexes!!! I have both Tmo and EU versions, all cables are compatible (bottom buttons, main flex cable, LCM), I've tested all of them. Yes, MoBo of TMo is a little bigger and wont fit in an EU housing, but all connectors are absolutely the same in both phones.

Anyone else please comment, because I need new flex for t-mobile version.
so flex is the same between 2 versions?
Second, anyone have any good tips on how to separate lcd and digitizer without breaking lcd?
because everytime I try to separate lcd from digitizer from touch pro2 they break!!
is the hd2 the same? glue together?

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Second, anyone have any good tips on how to separate lcd and digitizer without breaking lcd?
because everytime I try to separate lcd from digitizer from touch pro2 they break!!
is the hd2 the same? glue together?
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Try nearly welded together

DJ_MiX said:
Anyone else please comment, because I need new flex for t-mobile version.
so flex is the same between 2 versions?
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OMG! He doesn't believe me!
These cables have the same contacts and more of that, the same P/N: 50H10116-01M.
I changed one broken in T-mobile model with one from EU HD2 version and it works as needed, camera, BT, WIFI, all as with the original cable.
Other alternative is to solder broken connections if you have eagle eyes
DJ_MiX said:
Second, anyone have any good tips on how to separate lcd and digitizer without breaking lcd?
because everytime I try to separate lcd from digitizer from touch pro2 they break!!
is the hd2 the same? glue together?
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Did you heated LCM to 60*C before separating them? And YES, in EU version digitizer and LCD also are sticked together with double-sided scotch-like adhesive which looses most of it's stickiness at 60-63*C and digitizer may be separated with thin plastic sheet, I use a half of credit card (they can be very easily separated in two thin sheets).

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They USE THE SAME flexes!!! I have both Tmo and EU versions, all cables are compatible (bottom buttons, main flex cable, LCM), I've tested all of them. Yes, MoBo of TMo is a little bigger and wont fit in an EU housing, but all connectors are absolutely the same in both phones.
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The connectors are the same but there are two different part numbers. I always replace with the correct one so I suppose maybe they are the same size. However many times there can be small changes involved the people are not aware of. A manufacturer I deal with on these has 2 different numbers and has strict writing of which one to use with which phone. So for me, it wasn't worth using a Euro flex on a Tmous HD2 when they are similar in price.

Can you give me a link where to buy usa hd2 flex cable?

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The connectors are the same but there are two different part numbers. I always replace with the correct one so I suppose maybe they are the same size. However many times there can be small changes involved the people are not aware of. A manufacturer I deal with on these has 2 different numbers and has strict writing of which one to use with which phone. So for me, it wasn't worth using a Euro flex on a Tmous HD2 when they are similar in price.
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You did not understand, I did not checked only connectors, I've installed in a TMo HD2 main flex from European version, works perfect, just as the original one. If You want, you can replace only "correct one" but I wrote in my post for those who can buy main flex only for EU version because of shipping limitations or for about 20$ less in price (I didn't found main flex for TMo less than 64$ and for EU version price is 42-43$).
Just for knowledge, It can be repaired if you are able to handle an soldering iron with micro-tip and have a 20x magnifying glass. It will loose it's shining look, of course, but who will see it without opening the phone

How fragile is the Flex cable for the bottom buttons? I've got a HD2 with a broken digitizer that I replaced but the bottom buttons don't work anymore and neither do the lights on it, it was working before I took it apart and I have been careful with it. Same thing happened on another HD2 I tried to fix.
Also the ribbon cable for the LCD screen is very hard to connect again because of the tight angle it bends and goes in and the tab on the connector that locks the cable doesnt seem to lock it properly and the colur looks slightly faded unless I put pressure on it which makes it work normally.
Any ideas?

the connector is pretty fragile and there is a high wire density on that small flex cable tip. I were in your situation yesterday, managed to get the buttons working after some 8 tries at reconnecting that flex cable to the motherboard. Try to insert it as deep as you can get it and try to secure it tightly.
The display connector is fairly easy to connect, i make my connections while keeping the display tilted at about 90 degrees from the mainboard.
Don't worry about that, it isn't the baddest situation you can get (try doing the same thing on a htc herald or some older querty keyboard eten's .. that's a real hell)
ontopic.. ah yes, the flex cables are 100% compatible, one of my tmous hd2's has an eu flex cable. It's working just fine. Electronically speaking.. they contain 100% same components.

pvii said:
They USE THE SAME flexes!!! I have both Tmo and EU versions, all cables are compatible (bottom buttons, main flex cable, LCM), I've tested all of them. Yes, MoBo of TMo is a little bigger and wont fit in an EU housing, but all connectors are absolutely the same in both phones.
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Right.
LCD screens are different bu you can change them only if you change as an assembly of digitizer-lcd.
housing, chasis and mother boards are different, the rest can be exchanged.

HTC Leo screen replacement

Recently, my son dropped my HTC HD2(Europe/Greece version). The result was a broken screen. As I found out later, only the cover glass(digitizer) was broken and the LCD was OK.It even worked over the broken glass but it was dangerous to cut yourself anytime.
I looked in ebay and found a new digitizer at about $15. I also found a guide on youtube on how to open the HD2 and replace the digitizer. I followed all this steps (difficult and tricky but possible) just to find out that the ribbon cable of the old digitizer was welded(soldered) on the LCD. I found out after that, that there are 2 types of HD2. The one like mine and the (I think) T-mobile version which is with a connector.
I had no luck trying to mannually solder the ribbon cable on the LCD. I am not so good on that.
The next is to order a preassembled LCD with a digitizer. It costs about $40-$70 on ebay. It is a litle expensive, so I 'I try to keep it safe. Has anyone else experienced this situation? Are there different types of LCD as it is for the Digitizer?
Can anyone help me on making a corect decision?
Thank you

dentalan said:
Recently, my son dropped my HTC HD2(Europe/Greece version). The result was a broken screen. As I found out later, only the cover glass(digitizer) was broken and the LCD was OK.It even worked over the broken glass but it was dangerous to cut yourself anytime.
I looked in ebay and found a new digitizer at about $15. I also found a guide on youtube on how to open the HD2 and replace the digitizer. I followed all this steps (difficult and tricky but possible) just to find out that the ribbon cable of the old digitizer was welded(soldered) on the LCD. I found out after that, that there are 2 types of HD2. The one like mine and the (I think) T-mobile version which is with a connector.
I had no luck trying to mannually solder the ribbon cable on the LCD. I am not so good on that.
The next is to order a preassembled LCD with a digitizer. It costs about $40-$70 on ebay. It is a litle expensive, so I 'I try to keep it safe. Has anyone else experienced this situation? Are there different types of LCD as it is for the Digitizer?
Can anyone help me on making a corect decision?
Thank you
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You should buy The T8585 model.
Don't worry if Tmobile is written on the screen.

concabeza said:
You should buy The T8585 model.
Don't worry if Tmobile is written on the screen.
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OK, thanks I 'll post the results