So I went to bed after a crazy party and woke up with broken LCD. I have taken pretty good care of the phone and it cost me like $500 US so that sucks. Does anyone know a semi easy way that is at all cost efficient? Thanks in advance!
what part of the screen is broken?
if its the touch screen that doesnt work you can get a replacement off ebay relatively cheap
if its the lcd then its a lot more expensive - somewhere around $120USD although i saw one guy selling a replacement lcd for $70USD
there are also a few sites that you can send the phone in and they do the repairs and send it back within a week - but that costs around $200 or more
i cracked my screen and found an mda on craigslist for $225 barely used...now i have 2 mda's, one for daytime soberness and the cracked one for night intoxication
Well, yesterday it happened. I had my N7 in my back pocket (as I usually do when walking the short distances to the corner store and back). I ended up tripping over a toy my nephew left on the porch, and landed on my butt (and the tablet), The screen is shattered and will no longer respond to touch.
I cannot return it, so I have instead opted to fix it myself. However, the cheapest price I've found so far for the Glass/Digitzer is around $160.00! Add shipping and the cost of the tools and it is nearly $200!
I find it utterly insane that a single piece of the tablet costs nearly as much as it would to just buy a new one... which I may end up having to do unless I can find the part for less.
Any ideas? I figured I would ask you fine people if you know of any better pricing or not before I make my decision.
My suggestion would be to buy a new one and part out the old one on EBay.
Price you get for the parts should more than cover your new one, and pretty much everything - like speakers and battery - just unplug.
You will even find buyers for the case parts. If it is a 16GB unit, I bet a number of 8GB owners would like to buy the motherboard.
The profit margin on the devices is very thin so its not surprising that parts seem so expensive. Cost is recouped through advertising, data mining, and online content.
This is nothing new. Broken screens on laptops are also close to the cost of a new laptop. Many consumer electronic are not worth fixing.
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ezas said:
The profit margin on the devices is very thin so its not surprising that parts seem so expensive. Cost is recouped through advertising, data mining, and online content.
This is nothing new. Broken screens on laptops are also close to the cost of a new laptop. Many consumer electronic are not worth fixing.
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Well, thanks for the advice guys!
I've decided that I'm going to go out and buy a new one. However, I'm a bit torn on whether or not I should sell the broken one, or just hold onto it for later.
I can definitely make a good bit of my money back by "parting" it out. However, I think it would be fun to have a "test tablet" around to try out some physical mods I have in mind... and I could always fix it later when prices come down a bit.
I bought a 32gb when it came out, I still have my 16 its great for testing roms and kernels and stuff on before flashing things on my 32.
Obviously you couldn't do that with a broken screen but the philosophy applies to physical mods....
What did you have in mind?
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Well, thanks for the advice guys!
I've decided that I'm going to go out and buy a new one. However, I'm a bit torn on whether or not I should sell the broken one, or just hold onto it for later.
I can definitely make a good bit of my money back by "parting" it out. However, I think it would be fun to have a "test tablet" around to try out some physical mods I have in mind... and I could always fix it later when prices come down a bit.
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For now, just get a USB-OTG adapter and use a mouse with the device (You didn't say if the LCD was broken as well).
You can get a USB finger mouse that fits on your finger andmove the cursor around that way.
Yes, no more multitouch but hey - at least you've got a backup tablet.
As for the touch glass surface, it's bonded/glued to the LCD around the outside of the LCD frame. The best way to separate the LCD
from the glass would be to carefully disassemble the LCD assembly by popping up the back of the LCD frame and removing the guts, then carefully using a hot wire (of about 30guage or thinner) to cut the front of the LCD frame from the glass.
Re-assemble the LCD in the metal frame afterwards - it should just snap together.
My S4 screen got two hairline cracks about a month ago and expanded a little. The phone was working fine but this was bugging me. I went to Amazon and purchased a new OEM replacement glass (cost me $4; skeptical on the OEM claims). Anyway I removed the old glass successfully with a heat gun and a plastic iPhone tool and removed all the old adhesive off.
Being stupid I peeled the black adhesive and balled it up. I went to put on the new glass and I realized the new glass doesn't come with adhesive on it. After installing it I then realized that I actually cracked the LCD (I guess from the pressure when I was pressing a bit on the glass to make contact with the adhesive I thought came on the glass). Anyway, my phone doesn't turn on now (screen is dead) although the phone still works. I removed the screen again and threw everything in a box.
I'm without my personal phone now and I'm stuck using my company phone for the time being for personal stuff. I looked at Amazon and the replacement LCD is $200. I'm not on a contract with this phone and don't want to sign a contract with AT&T or I lose my current minute package I have. I purchased this device from Craigslist from some guy for $400 a couple of months back.
What is the best route to repair this? Keep in mind I don't have insurance since I purchased this outright. This is the 32GB model. Should I just sell it AS-IS on Craigslist? How much should I ask?
By the way I think Gorilla Glass is BS. My phone fell about 4 inches on the ground and got two cracks.
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My S4 screen got two hairline cracks about a month ago and expanded a little. The phone was working fine but this was bugging me. I went to Amazon and purchased a new OEM replacement glass (cost me $4; skeptical on the OEM claims). Anyway I removed the old glass successfully with a heat gun and a plastic iPhone tool and removed all the old adhesive off.
Being stupid I peeled the black adhesive and balled it up. I went to put on the new glass and I realized the new glass doesn't come with adhesive on it. After installing it I then realized that I actually cracked the LCD (I guess from the pressure when I was pressing a bit on the glass to make contact with the adhesive I thought came on the glass). Anyway, my phone doesn't turn on now (screen is dead) although the phone still works. I removed the screen again and threw everything in a box.
I'm without my personal phone now and I'm stuck using my company phone for the time being for personal stuff. I looked at Amazon and the replacement LCD is $200. I'm not on a contract with this phone and don't want to sign a contract with AT&T or I lose my current minute package I have. I purchased this device from Craigslist from some guy for $400 a couple of months back.
What is the best route to repair this? Keep in mind I don't have insurance since I purchased this outright. This is the 32GB model. Should I just sell it AS-IS on Craigslist? How much should I ask?
By the way I think Gorilla Glass is BS. My phone fell about 4 inches on the ground and got two cracks.
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Sell it as-is, ask around $150 - $200... someone who knows how to fix it will gobble it up. Take that money and spend a little extra and buy a Nexus 5 from Google. At least this is what I'd do...
If you really intend on keeping it.
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Sell it as-is, ask around $150 - $200... someone who knows how to fix it will gobble it up. Take that money and spend a little extra and buy a Nexus 5 from Google. At least this is what I'd do...
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Agreed. I'd rather have the Nexus 5 anyway.
Really sorry to hear about your phone though. I personally wouldn't risk replacing the LCD, you may break something else while inside..
If anybody wants to buy it let me know via PM. If not, I'll just hang on to it until the S5 comes out. I'm sure the price of the LED screen will drop.
I purchased another S4 (16GB model in White). It sucks because the broken one is a 32GB.
Update: Sold the phone to some guy who owns a cell phone shop for $175. Not bad.
So I cracked my screen juggling to many things in my hands(phone energy drink, keys, ecig etc) tablet slipped right out of my hand. Funny thing is I am not even upset. I am usually OCD about cracks, I have $500 balance on this via T-Mobile EIP, got rid of jump so I am essentially screwed. Touch screen is fully working so it's still usable. I wonder how much Samsung will charge me to send it in for repair. May just sell it and make put it towards EIP plus make big payments. Idk. It really sucks but what can you do. Glass breaks, Samsung build quality sucks and so much more important things in life to worry about. Maybe this is a sign I should get the nexus 9. After all HTC is known for build quality and even though it's not likely going to be aluminum due to Nexus wireless charging I have a sneaking suspicion it will be miles ahead of anything Samsung produce anytime soon.
Anyone else rocking a cracked screen or repaired it either yourself or by Samsung/3rd party repair shop?
@md1008 feel for you mate and everyone else that this happens too.
There is a dissasembly thread few pages down in the "Help and Troubleshooting section".
From what I have gathered is that it will cost about $200 for Samsung to fix but its impossible to do yourself....here is a comment from shart from that exact thread kinda explains it well tbh....
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So I have a p600 (Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Ed) and I dropped it on the corner. shattered the digitizer. I bought a new Digitizer and in the process of repairing it learned the hard way that it is next to impossible to separate the Digitizer from the LCD. Bottom line is that I now need a replacement LCD for my tablet now also. FYI, there is a Gummy adhesive, much like industrial rubber glue between the digitizer and the LCD and the surface adhesion is too great to separate the two without damaging the LCD, try as you might it's next to impossible.
For the Sake of science I have just busted my tablet. I blame nobody but myself in this mess, but let it be a lesson learned for everyone else after me.
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Yeah I am too clumsy for self repair. Samsung quoted me 260 I believe. Really think I will wait to see what Nexus 9 brings to the table and price range. I wish Samsung would release a successor to the note 8.0 so far I have not read anything. Seems Samsung is mostly focused on their "tab" series
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Yeah I am too clumsy for self repair. Samsung quoted me 260 I believe. Really think I will wait to see what Nexus 9 brings to the table and price range. I wish Samsung would release a successor to the note 8.0 so far I have not read anything. Seems Samsung is mostly focused on their "tab" series
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Yep, the screen is the most expensive in tablet or cell phone. Currently Ebay is selling $200 for the screen assembly, $140 for Hong Kong made and you have to do it yourself. The price for the note 10.1 2014 is dropping fast so it's not worth to repair. Save your money for the Nexus 9 would be the right choice....
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Yeah I am too clumsy for self repair. Samsung quoted me 260 I believe. Really think I will wait to see what Nexus 9 brings to the table and price range. I wish Samsung would release a successor to the note 8.0 so far I have not read anything. Seems Samsung is mostly focused on their "tab" series
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Not worth paying 260 ... thats crazy. I'd jist keep using it as its only on the corner and see what your options are with the newer tablets and then either try give it a go yasel or just sell it on ebay or do what my brother did with his cracked Blackberry Tablet ... he put on a screen protector on (mind you there was no glass or sharp bits anyway) and gave it to his 3 year old kid to play games with haha.
I will probably put a screen protector the cracks spread through the whole screen. The thing that sucks is that it's the spen why I bought this bloody screen and using spen on cracked screen is not ideal. Otherwise I would never buy Samsung. I hate touchwiz(unless on note) and I hate even more how cheap Samsung products feel(they got better and the note 4 did have some praise in early review)
Personally I think on the original note they gave it a more premium build with crappy specs where as on this bad boy they cut cost and gave it the best specs(at that time) the og Note 10.1 I feel had an all round better build to it
http://m.yelp.com/biz/lord-of-the-phones-san-diego-9
These guys quoted me at $190 and have excellent yelp reviews. I think I may go with it.
Try putting a glass screen protector on it.
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http://m.yelp.com/biz/lord-of-the-phones-san-diego-9
These guys quoted me at $190 and have excellent yelp reviews. I think I may go with it.
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Well if you tried a DIY job then I think if you buy a digitizer it will cost you about $50 and then probs $30 for delivery. So about $100 for labour isnt bad considering its a bigger job than I initally thought tbh.
Reading more and more it does seem like Samsung have made it impossible for an average joe to fix. And then atleast you have a tablet back.
I guess only you really know if its worth the cost for you or not. If I were you I'd wait and see what stuff is coming up and then put the $190 towards a newer tablet.
Anyhoo hope it works out whatever you do mate.
Yeah kinda what I am thinking, what sucks is I have a $500 left on this. I think I may go with it. I don't care about tablet specs as much as phones. I would have kept the original note 10.1 if it the software didn't such so bad. I figure if something did come around that is better I would get more money back if the screen is not cracked. Making the $200 lost almost a wash. I know no matter what I am getting an Otterbox. I know you drop tablets they break but I believe if was more durable the damage would be far less
Yeah cases do provide some protection for falls not sure how much protection my Official BookCover provides. What case did you have on it ... Can't tell what type of case it is from the picture you uploaded.
Its a generic case from eBay. I actually hated it, somehow when it was in the case I often couldn't use external buttons like power, home, or the menu/back. Pie solved the problem.
Looked on eBay and it doesn't look like a cracked note would get me much money so repair it is!
Put a screen protector on and although it's more usable smooth glass surface it actually looks worst. The glass shards and uneveness causes bubbles worst is that I had to keep reapplying the screen protector because of stupid glass shards causing dust and dirt make it's way inside
Oooooh I didnt realise that the cracks went along the entire screen, having the screen protector on really showed the extent of the damage blimey its bad. Yeah thats in no usable condition tbh I genuinly thought it was just the top right hand side that was damaged, aye a guess $190 to have your tablet back isnt too bad.
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Well today I bought an otterbox until I can afford $ to get it repaired. Comes with a screen protector which illuminates air bubbles plus I feel like if it drops it won't crack even more or at least will crack less. When the screen is lit up either with color or black its not noticeable, but when the screen is white it's an absolute eye sore. Does add significant weight. Add bulk but nothing unreasonable.
Here is white background, even worst browsing internet
As you see with dark colors the cracks blend right in
Also Walmart online(and only online they won't match prices) has this on sale for less than $45 with tax.
http://mobile.walmart.com/ip/OtterB...b370202264b6f&veh=aff&wmlspartner=lw9MynSeamY
It's not an impossible or an expensive repair, really. Just takes a bit of patience to get it apart and back together, so as not to cause more damage than ya started with!
I'm looking to finally replace the screen on my D800 G2. I dropped it a few months so and badly damaged the LCD and digitizer glass. I have been doing research but I feel buying replacement screens are always a gamble. I've fixed many iPhone screens in the past and even when ordering from the same vendor on Amazon you can still end up with a different quality screen than a previous purchase.
To anyone who has had to replace their G2's LCD and digitizer, what's a decent screen for the money? It doesn't have to be OEM quality, (I'm not looking to pay 75% of what I paid for the phone originally) but just as long as it looks decent and functions well.
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