Title. It's badly broken but LCD/ digitizer is fine, can I use one of these $10 glass fronts? How hard would it be to repair?
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has anyone bought replacement glass from fleabay? ive broken the glass but the touchscreen is fine
just wondering about the quality of replacement from the auction site, i presume its not the gorilla glass?
thanks
grakon said:
has anyone bought replacement glass from fleabay? ive broken the glass but the touchscreen is fine
just wondering about the quality of replacement from the auction site, i presume its not the gorilla glass?
thanks
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Replacing just the glass is hell on earth. You have to unglue the glass from the digitizer and if you're not careful, you'll end up cracking it. You're better off buying a full LCD + Digitizer assembly and replacing it entirely than mess around with replacing just the glass... Just my two cents.
if i was to do that mate id send the phone back as its still under insurance but that return would cost me about £30 and be without my phone for at least 2 weeks.
no one else bought this glass and know what the quality like?
I have a S3 that had a cracked screen. I bought a replacement lens and during the removal the digitizer also cracked. I was a little over eager during the repair and didn't fully appreciate how well the lens and digitizer were fused. So now I have a perfectly fine screen, just a broken digitizer.
I looked around and it looks like the only options are to get the lens only or the entire assembly. Anyone know if there is a middle ground where I can replace the lens and digitizer but not the screen?
Thanks.
How would you do to replace only the digitizer ? You must remove the glass to do it, and probably break it during process.
That's why even if it's more expensive I bought the whole front piece: glass + digitizer + frame.
You can buy three things:
- front glass only: cheap but very tricky to remove it only without breaking digitizer.
- front glass + digitizer: you have to remove them from your phone, first glass, then digitizer, unglue them and so on.
- front glass + digitizer + frame: you have to move power and sound level buttons, antenna, motherboard, front camera lens, speaker and so on.
Btw what are you calling 'lens' ?
Striatum_bdr said:
How would you do to replace only the digitizer ? You must remove the glass to do it, and probably break it during process.
That's why even if it's more expensive I bought the whole front piece: glass + digitizer + frame.
You can buy three things:
- front glass only: cheap but very tricky to remove it only without breaking digitizer.
- front glass + digitizer: you have to remove them from your phone, first glass, then digitizer, unglue them and so on.
- front glass + digitizer + frame: you have to move power and sound level buttons, antenna, motherboard, front camera lens, speaker and so on.
Btw what are you calling 'lens' ?
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I was calling the front glass the lens. It seemed pretty easy to find just the front glass. I wasn't able to find the front glass + digitizer - there were plenty of places that said this is what you get, but looking at the pictures it only resembled the front glass. I removed both from the phone (and broke the digitizer cable in process). I ended up calling Samsung and they said they would do the whole assembly for $178. My understanding is that the whole assembly also includes the LCD, correct? Oddly enough, it appears to be more on ebay and local repair shops, so I went with sending it in.
The full assembly includes the samoled screen.
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Yesterday my glass cracked. I have found glass and digitizer on ebay (it says its original). http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-...7?pt=Notebook_Komponenten&hash=item27d08b7e69
How hard is to change it? I have changed few S3 screens so I'm familiar with this kind of work...
Should I order this one or another one?
Hello. I have had a galaxy s3 with cracked glass and tried to replace it. I have seen many videos on youtube how to replace it. Basically people on these videos heat the screen and then remove the front glass easily, because the digitizer is glued to the lcd. But when I tried to remove it it came off quite easily, but only then I noticed that the digitizer was glued not to the lcd but to the front glass, so when i tried to remove front glass I accidentally broke the digitiser connector and somehow damaged the lcd. You can see photos here:
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Samsung-galaxy-S-III-/00/s/MTYwMFg5MDE=/z/N0AAAOxylpNTUq5H/$_58.JPG
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Samsung-galaxy-S-III-/00/s/MTYwMFg5MDE=/z/QREAAMXQ74JTUq67/$_58.JPG (in this photo you can see that the digitizer was glued to the front glass very strongly)
I would like to ask, do you know why the digitizer could have been glued to the front glass but not to the lcd? And why the lcd could have been damaged while removing front glass??
I would really wanna know the answer myself, as I ordered one that should have reached yesterday, but as they do not work on weekends, it will be here tommorow, and I don't wanna brake my display forever, especially because mine is not that damaged.
Any ideas?
my advice don't bother with a glass replacement. I HAVE TRIED TWICE and as the op said the digitizer is glued to the front glass. this has been the case with both the original screen and two replacement lcd/digitizer/glass assemblies that i personally took apart. each time the glass was fused to the digitizer . i used a heat gun and a laser thermometer and still i failed. I was successful replacing the whole screen assembly twice . but those cost about $130 from amazon,com. These replacements may seem at first like oem but the ones i got cracked very easily. they dont use the gorilla glass and the quality is not as good. one replacement was really bad in sunlight. could not see anything. after my screen cracked a third time i got a galaxy s 5 . and started using a case and screen protector.
Hey buddies, The screen of my phone got breked. Touch is working. i can use the phone. Is there anyone who knows how to replace the LCD Screen glass and where to find the glass?
https://www.amazon.com/MOTOROLA-Mot...506525321&sr=8-12&keywords=moto+g4+plus+glass for the hard replacement but cheaper, OR
https://www.amazon.com/ePartSolution_OEM-Motorola-Digitizer-Assembly-Replacement/dp/B0713SWNFJ for more expensive but easier drop-in replacement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yu7HpzQU2I shows how difficult it is to replace just the glass of the phone
Don't expect Gorilla Glass 3 like OEM but more like cheap glass so next drop, will break again.