Has anyone over here done a replacement of Aria cracked screen by themselves? I am thinking about getting this from ebay and doing it myself, just wanted to know if it is too tricky..
Thanks
There are plenty of tutorials on U Tube and similar websites. It takes some experience to replace a digitizer/LCD. If you aren't confident you can do it don't try. You could make it much worse.
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I saw the link on droid-life.com of the tear down of the tbolt. just wondering how easy it actually is to do. My screen somehow cracked (dunno how) and over a few days the crack spread and eventually went down the whole screen.
Wondering if anyone has bought one of those cheap 30-40 buck digitizers off of eBay and if they work/fit perfectly.
i'd rather pay 30-40 bucks and have the same rooted/rom'd phone then have to return the phone to stock, pay asurion 100 bucks, and then get a new phoen and do it all over again.
I know it voids the warranty but it might be worth it.
Putting it out there for thoughts...
I have replaced a digitizer on the og Droid successfully in the past, but the Thunderbolt looks to be somewhat different and possibly more difficult. If you do it properly it is better than paying for a replacement, but just be aware that you could render the phone useless if you mess up. It is your decision but personally I wouldn't want to mess up such an expensive device.
yea think i may give it a shot. I've done laptop LCD's and such before. Its pretty much the same except 10x smaller (joking)
But yea there is a teardown video which seems to be very helpful so if anything its worth a shot. Worst case if it gets screwed up i have insurance so i can always say it got "stolen" and get a new one. still $100 bucks but i figured the risk is worth the reward if it works.
If anyone has tried it i figured its worth asking to see if its easy as it looks based on the video.
Franzie3 said:
yea think i may give it a shot. I've done laptop LCD's and such before. Its pretty much the same except 10x smaller (joking)
But yea there is a teardown video which seems to be very helpful so if anything its worth a shot. Worst case if it gets screwed up i have insurance so i can always say it got "stolen" and get a new one. still $100 bucks but i figured the risk is worth the reward if it works.
If anyone has tried it i figured its worth asking to see if its easy as it looks based on the video.
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I did this on my Incredible, wasn't hard at all. You will have to get a new housing also, because I believe it is glued to the digitizer and trying to get those 2 things apart is basically impossible, at least it was on the INC.
Here is the Tear down video in case anyone wants to try it
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/06/14/video-htc-thunderbolt-gets-torn-down-and-then-repaired/
i am going to order mine sometime this week and try it. From what i have read there is no need to buy a new casing.
You just have to be really careful when using the heat gun, I was not lol.
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You just have to be really careful when using the heat gun, I was not lol.
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D'OH!!!
Yea i may use a hair dryer instead of a heat gun, might be a little safer. If im successful i'll take a step by step picture of how to do it and maybe even another video.
So... I failed, and the glass has one crack on it that stretches from one side of the screen to the other near the bottom. Most people wouldn't mind it, and it could in fact be taken as maybe just a worse than usual scratch. I care a lot about it though, and it bugs the living sh** outta me! >:O
I was wondering if anyone could provide me with a step by step manual screen replacement tutorial, or video of some sort. I would get it fixed by some third party store, except they're charging over like $200... And I can't get warranty from Rogers since I'm a Fido customer, and because it wasn't even bought directly from Rogers. Or maybe there's some other solution to fix the screen? Like I heard of that scratch filling screen, maybe that'll do something.
Thanks for your help!
Just fyi, on the Razr the glass and display are glued together making it impossible to replace just the glass.
Here's a tear-down of the phone:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Motorola-Droid-RAZR-Teardown/7048/1
so anyone successfully replaced the LCD screen & digitizer ?
i have a cracked screen and would like to do this.
cheers.
edd32 said:
so anyone successfully replaced the LCD screen & digitizer ?
i have a cracked screen and would like to do this.
cheers.
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Im also looking to find a way to defuse the two i have two RAZRs one with cracked glass one with cracked lcd wondering if i can make one with all the good parts and sell the other for parts but all ive heard is how to seperate the two but not how to place them together..
I know there are plenty out there...I usually get my parts from RepairsUniverse but just wondering if there is a better screen or one that is better than stock...any suggestions? The glass itself is in perfect shape so I am assuming the digitizer is alright, but I might replace it just to have everything brand new, what do you guys think?
That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, and there aren't going to be any better screens than the OEM stock screen. Sure, there will be worse screens...but not any better.
So on my way from the car to the train station this morning, I managed to drop my phone on the ground.. I've dropped it a couple of times before, and nothing had ever happened.. but this time as soon as I dropped it I knew I wasn't getting that lucky this time. Maybe its the freezing temperatures, I don't know.. but my screen now has massive spiderwebbing in two of the corners, and cracks running all over the screen. The last day to do returns for the holidays (which is when I bought it) was January 15. I also didn't get insurance.. am I screwed? :/
I have seen operable cracked screen DNA's go for about $300-400 on eBay. In the long run you could do that and then buy one second hand without a cracked screen for about $450-$500, so in reality a $100 screen replacement
You could also have a shot yourself here. The internals don't look very hard to be honest
You can get some ideas here also
Contact a HTC repair centre first and maybe it works out cheaper?
Good luck
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I have seen operable cracked screen DNA's go for about $300-400 on eBay. In the long run you could do that and then buy one second hand without a cracked screen for about $450-$500, so in reality a $100 screen replacement
You could also have a shot yourself here. The internals don't look very hard to be honest
You can get some ideas here also
Contact a HTC repair centre first and maybe it works out cheaper?
Good luck
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Thanks for the information! I'm not sure how much I trust myself taking apart my phone, but I may not have another choice. HTC RMA is asking $220, and it would take 7-10 business days (not including shipping).. I may potentially buy the screen shown in your link and try to do it myself. Although it says "Digitizer Touch Screen", it would only be the glass I'd be replacing, correct? The capacitive layer is still working perfectly fine, so I don't want to mess with that..
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Thanks for the information! I'm not sure how much I trust myself taking apart my phone, but I may not have another choice. HTC RMA is asking $220, and it would take 7-10 business days (not including shipping).. I may potentially buy the screen shown in your link and try to do it myself. Although it says "Digitizer Touch Screen", it would only be the glass I'd be replacing, correct? The capacitive layer is still working perfectly fine, so I don't want to mess with that..
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It would be the entire assembly you're replacing, it all comes as one unit rather than the glass and digitizer separately. From what I've seen from the pictures of the disassembled DNA, it doesn't LOOK as though it would be terribly difficult.
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It would be the entire assembly you're replacing, it all comes as one unit rather than the glass and digitizer separately. From what I've seen from the pictures of the disassembled DNA, it doesn't LOOK as though it would be terribly difficult.
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My thoughts exactly. Just make sure all of the cables are the correct length on the eBay items. (I have received 2 screens for 2 different models that had short flex cables) and I tried to force one of them and it snapped, the other one the guy said they were all the same so he refunded me. You could check if any other eBay users that have purchased them have left positive feedback too.
It would be awesome if genuine dealers were entitled to sell the screens but they are OEM and only to be installed by a qualified repair centre. LAME HUH!
However, DNA looks pretty basic and you could always post pictures of your progress and get some help from us guys if you get stuck Good luck guy
Hello all,
Ive done the thing we all dread and cracked the LCD on my dell streak 5, its the LCD under the top glass and the rest of the phone still works.
I really want to replace it and all that i can do if i can find the LCD to buy online, i looked on ebay and found the screen for £70 ish, as the phone itself can be found for that much i dont want to pay it.
Does anyone know of a place that sells the scree for less than that, or does anyone here have one to sell.
Im looking to spend around £30 for just the LCD as i dont think its worth much more than that
Id like to fix it as its a really good phone and even if i do upgrade id like to keep it around.
Im sorry if this information is elsewhere i did look honest and i found outdated ebay links and people that have now ssold there stuff, also i hope this is in the right place
Thanks in advance to anyone that can help
Problem is Dell Streak 5 isn't popular enough unfortunately.
Yes that's true, such a shame about it as it causes the prices to be very high
I used to buy lcd about 33 u.s.dollar via ebay last year. I think its cost will be discount soon.
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The LCD broke from the fall broke the alone;