My daughter just dropped her less than a week old phone in the grass and somehow managed to fracture the glass at the top where the camera is. Of course, no insurance. She found a replacement part for a reasonable price. I'm just wondering what is involved in replacing it.
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All I can really find is the tear down which doesnt show the removal of that back glass. The way it looks though is that if you hit it with a heat gun you may be able to pry off... here's the tear down if you haven't saw it yet http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G0dKEaIEqYY&desktop_uri=/watch?v=G0dKEaIEqYY
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I agree, it seems like it's glued on... I'm just not sure how decent it will look when the new glass is on and the glue re-sets.
It would look better than shattered glass, at any rate.
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Simple fix. They sell the back camera glass cover with adhesive on it. Break out the old glass and stick on the new. 5 mins max. If you need any further help send me a pm.
How much money are we talking here?
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Simple fix. They sell the back camera glass cover with adhesive on it. Break out the old glass and stick on the new. 5 mins max. If you need any further help send me a pm.
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Tried to send you a pm but tapatalk won't let me. It says you have elected to not receive private messages. If you have a good link for those, it would save me some time. Thanks!
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Tried to send you a pm but tapatalk won't let me. It says you have elected to not receive private messages. If you have a good link for those, it would save me some time. Thanks!
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Ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/261323529550?lpid=82
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Scratched my phone on my keys need new housing for it does anyone know a service to replace or where to buy
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One place (out of many probably): http://cnn.cn/shop/i9300-galaxy-c-1425_26_1412.html
Thank you looking for UK screen all ok just scratched externally
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chrisully said:
Thank you looking for UK screen all ok just scratched externally
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Try being helpful......What exactly are you looking to replace?
The external housing and thank you for the reply I have Google and looking on ebay has got me nowhere
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The external housing and thank you for the reply I have Google and looking on ebay has got me nowhere
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so you need the back cover?
The back is fine
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so which bit do you want? The glass, the bezel?
The external housing the screen is scratched
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the screen and digitizer are glued together, expensive
It is possible to separate them but it is fiddly, hit and miss, and requires skill and patience.
There is a thread in s3 general about doing it, with a video.
Ahh I thought was separate sorry for misunderstanding
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Ahh I thought was separate sorry for misunderstanding
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They are very hard to prise apart so my suggestion is live with the scratch and get a screen guard.......always, whenever you get a new phone!
Depending on your phones colour, this is what you will need. He is a UK seller and trusted i can confirm his item is legit. I was playing Basket ball with my brother near my house and the floor was concrete floor. Anyway i took a shot and the phone fell out my jacket pocket and landed face down. The screen protector got totally f'd up and i still got a scratched and a cracked screen.
I was looking at youtube videos on how to replace the screen it looked hard till i found these two items on ebay.
Blue touch panel and metal frame with hardware buttons.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ORIGINAL-...arts_Tools&hash=item5aea0d4273#ht_3037wt_1163
White touch panel and metal frame with hardware buttonss.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ORIGINAL-...arts_Tools&hash=item5aea48657e#ht_4474wt_1163
Anyway so i have a white phone i ordered the white digitizer metal frame thingy it is quite expensive, When it arrived all i did was take my phone apart and take the important parts like the mic, motherboard, front facing camera and etc and swapped it into the new one and it works great again looks brand new as well.
Thanks that's what I'm looking for
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You're most welcome
I googled i9300 housing eBay
And got quite a few.
Managed to dent my side metal frame.
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I was just cleaning off my screen and I noticed theres some dust under the screen in the front camera hole. There's dust, and some stuff that looks like ice crystals or salt. It's been in my pocket all day and I think it's really weird. I'm not going to RMA or anything, because I will probably never use the front facing camera anyway. I always use the back
I too have dust in my front facing camera. Not a big deal but really LG? The build quality may look good on this phone but it's actually pretty bad. This is my fourth phone. I'm not rma-ing again.
You can easily take out the back cover and remove it.
You just need a #5(?) torque screw and a prying tool to open the back cover.
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I don't understand why OEM's cant manufacture a phone with a proper dust seal gasket. It drives me absolutely nuts when there is dust under my screen. My old HTC Desire HD had dust under the screen within a week of purchase, and i took it back to telus. Unacceptable.
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I don't understand why OEM's cant manufacture a phone with a proper dust seal gasket. It drives me absolutely nuts when there is dust under my screen. My old HTC Desire HD had dust under the screen within a week of purchase, and i took it back to telus. Unacceptable.
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Accidents happen.
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You can easily take out the back cover and remove it.
You just need a #5(?) torque screw and a prying tool to open the back cover.
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I shouldn't have to do this. I would rather rma it than possibly damage the phone and void the warranty.
Krunk83 said:
I shouldn't have to do this. I would rather rma it than possibly damage the phone and void the warranty.
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Okay.
It's relatively easy. Here's the video that I used.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=AZDAIgwbXk4
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Okay.
It's relatively easy. Here's the video that I used.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=AZDAIgwbXk4
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Nothing about removing the front camera to clean it.
Get it RMAd.
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Girn said:
Get it RMAd.
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Ugh, that is such a pain in the rear.
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Ugh, that is such a pain in the rear.
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Many of you won't agree with this but this is the reason I bought my phone through tmobile I did get it for 49.99 though.
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Many of you won't agree with this but this is the reason I bought my phone through tmobile I did get it for 49.99 though.
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It's not the rma that is a pain, it's setting my phone up again that is.
Hey there, long time lurker here but now I really need your help. I managed to drop my Nexus 4 this morning from about 3 foot onto lino flooring in my bathroom. It landed smack bang on it's back and the back glass is shattered.
Are there any cheap solutions to repairing this? I saw some glass on the bay for about £20, I don't know how easy it will be to repair though. Also thought about getting a skin from dbrands and just sticking it over it, hoping it holds.
Thanks, Ben.
I guess there aren't any alternatives.
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I hope u fix it :s
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Hey there, long time lurker here but now I really need your help. I managed to drop my Nexus 4 this morning from about 3 foot onto lino flooring in my bathroom. It landed smack bang on it's back and the back glass is shattered.
Are there any cheap solutions to repairing this? I saw some glass on the bay for about £20, I don't know how easy it will be to repair though. Also thought about getting a skin from dbrands and just sticking it over it, hoping it holds.
Thanks, Ben.
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You might wanna take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSe1I0MlpLI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
The link to purchase the back cover is in the description. Good luck!
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You might wanna take a look at this video:
The link to purchase the back cover is in the description. Good luck!
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It's not the screen, it's the glass on the back.
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their are 2 options you will find the one with NFC with be more expensive if you dont use NFC get the one without it and i got one for a friend off of ebay just search" nexus 4 back housing".
As far as buying a new back, I've heard a lot of people going on eBay, but where you get it is up to you.
As far as how to replace it once you obtain a replacement back, check out this thread. It has pictures and a nice step-by-step guide on how to do it. Scroll down a few posts and the OP also tells you where he got his replacement from.
Call LG
LG charged me $69.00 to replace the back glass.
Personally I'd save myself some money and time and go with a dbrand skin. The carbon one actually looks very nice on the N4 IMO (look at Taylor Martin's posts on www.pocketnow.com if you want to see it).
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Personally I'd save myself some money and time and go with a dbrand skin. The carbon one actually looks very nice on the N4 IMO (look at Taylor Martin's posts on if you want to see it).
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It's whether it will stay on though, with the glass being shattered and all I thought it might peel off with the shattered glass.
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Call LG
LG charged me $69.00 to replace the back glass.
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I rang them in the UK and they said they don't do repairs.
The people they referred me to (Carphone Warehouse) quoted me £79.99.
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Decided to get a dbrands skin and a ringke fusion case. Maybe some superglue to hold that glass together.
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It's not the screen, it's the glass on the back.
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Sorry, that was the wrong link. This is the correct one, if you're still interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZDAIgwbXk4 (the first 2:30) and the oem back: http://www.etradesupply.com/oem-lg-nexus-4-e960-battery-door-nfc-version.html
Phone is cracked on front and back what're my options here?
send it in to LG for repair... i know when my screen cracked it cost $140 to repair, i'm unsure as to what the cost would be to repair the back as well.
alternatively you can buy the glass itself and replace it yourself but in my case it was cheaper to just have lg fix it.
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Phone is cracked on front and back what're my options here?
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Buy a new phone?
Am I close? Maybe get virgin mobile and build your way back up to the nexus.
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Phone is cracked on front and back what're my options here?
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When this happened to me I just bought another one that had the opposite damage. You could probably get away with a water damaged phone if the digitizer isn't sensitive to a little h2o.
Is that all that's damaged?
Pictures? Did you fall on it or something, I mean, 185 lbs, lol...
Picture or it didn't happen :thumbup:
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Lol yeah if 185lbs was dropped on it I feel like more than just glass was damaged.
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You can give it to a hobo to eat
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Phone is cracked on front and back what're my options here?
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get the front and back replaced rough estimate= 150+60=210 $ best of luck
well i took it in to get repaired.. the guy came out half way through the repair and said that they put a new screen in but that it wasn't responsive.. i'm thinking more than just the screen and back broke.. the guy said it was for sure their screen though.. he told me that they'd order a new one and have it done tomorrow.. hope it was actually a faulty screen...
Leave us an update. I got my pop corn nearby
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So today I flipped open my case and my digitizer was cracked on my less than 2 week old N7. Won't let me unlock or anything. I have not dropped or otherwise damaged it. Has this happend to anyone else? Manufacturing defect? I also noticed last night that on black screens there were some red splotches. I'm just afraid if I try to get it replaced they will say physical damage have a nice day.
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Quick pic with it out of the case.
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Quick pic with it out of the case.
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I believe it and no have not heard of this happening. If it was a drop, there would be a clear dent or shatter marking on that line before it splits into two. Just talk to google or where-ever you bought it from and try to keep calm. When glass breaks, it shatters and not produce hairline breaks like that.
get it replaced for free.
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Quick pic with it out of the case.
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Looks like a heat crack.
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Andrew149 said:
Looks like a heat crack.
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yup either that or a crack form pressure like sitting on it or having it in the back pocket and forgetting about it.
that's not a defect. it just doesn't crack on its own.
I couldn't find my tablet. Looked high an low. Sat down on the sofa and found it. My screen is worse than your picture but is the same result. No way to unlock the screen or anything. She is busted.
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I couldn't find my tablet. Looked high an low. Sat down on the sofa and found it. My screen is worse than your picture but is the same result. No way to unlock the screen or anything. She is busted.
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Did you sit down on it hard? Is it a very stiff sofa?
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Did you sit down on it hard? Is it a very stiff sofa?
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The tablet had slipped down the back of the sofa between the seat cushion and the back of the sofa. I sat down and it must have squished it. The cushions are super soft and I'm still not 100% sure it happened.
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I couldn't find my tablet. Looked high an low. Sat down on the sofa and found it. My screen is worse than your picture but is the same result. No way to unlock the screen or anything. She is busted.
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lol did u went and got a new one? cause it said "sent from my nexus 7". just wondering lol.
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lol did u went and got a new one? cause it said "sent from my nexus 7". just wondering lol.
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I bought a 32gb the same day and had it sent overnight. I learned an expensive lesson to be more careful. Flo isn't as tough as my SGSIII. These screens seem soft.
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I bought a 32gb the same day and had it sent overnight. I learned an expensive lesson to be more careful. Flo isn't as tough as my SGSIII. These screens seem soft.
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ahaha, nice!!
is Asus charging you to repair that device?
The nexus 7 has a very weak glass.
Mine got hairline crack from twisting.
Most drop test videos show it breaks on the first drop.
I have replaced first unit, waiting until local repair guy can get parts from his usual source to get first one fixed. May try contacting google/Asus about a repair but have not done that yet.
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If you bought it with a credit card you may have coverage. Many of the premium cards come with 90 day replacement insurance.
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