I have had vertical banding issues since day 1 with the LCD, and I contemplated returning the phone (to China) because of it. Instead, the seller notified me he'd pay to have the LCD replaced, either in the US at my choice of phone repair stores, or send it back to China and he'd send to a shop to do it. I'd do it myself if I could find a supplier for the LCD/glass digitizer (I have done it on multiple Nokia phones, including a 5800XM). Alas, while finding a suitable repair shop, I cracked the glass.
Am I the first one to drop the Galaxy Nexus? It fell about a foot onto bricks, and now I have a crack in the glass extending from the earpiece to the power button. I called around and I am the first in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area to break their Galaxy Nexus.. great. My case and screen protector haven't even come yet.
Does anybody have any advice on where to go from here? Do I ship the phone back to China (expensive, and I'll be without a phone for 3-4 weeks)? I can't believe I had my Nexus One for two years, dropping it all over the place, and it's still in beautiful shape, while this one has LCD issues from day one, and now cracked glass after a single small fall (that the Nexus has taken many times.. I need to stop driving with the phone in my lap).
done it many times (phone on lap when driving) then forget when i get out and it gets thrown out of the car onto the ground.
many places dont have nexus accessories yet ... ghost armour needs 10 days to even get a screen protector in (they put on a htc sensation cover for now - doesnt even cover the screen itself, let alone the entire from !)
I took a look at the Galaxy Nexus teardown on ifixit. Link HERE.
If you look at steps 6-8 you'll see that popping the screen/digitizer out really isn't too bad at all. The real issue will be finding the screen/digitizer in one piece for a decent price. I looked around on Amazon and EBay and failed at finding any for sale.
However, if you can find a screen/digitizer for under $200 somewhere I would follow the ifixit instructions and change it yourself.
I browsed through the teardown and it doesn't seem like that'd be an issue at all. I have done a fair amount of phone repairs previously, including lcd replacement and smt soldering on the phone's main PCB. The problem is that I can't find anywhere that sells the digitizer/LCD. Looks like it's back to china for this guy.
Yeah I've thrown the N1 out of my lap probably twenty times in the past two years. It's always taken it like a champ. I wish they had used gorilla glass on this phone.
I've dropped my GN twice already, once onto a concrete floor. So far, I've been lucky. Can't find any damage. It's not too reassuring to hear that it will crack so easily, though.
FYI, even Gorilla Glass isn't shatter-proof. Highly scratch resistant, but not shatter-proof. Give it the right point-load, and it will also shatter.
I know that Gorilla Glass isn't shatterproof, but I have seen unspeakable things done to my N1 and nothing has ever come of it. I'm still putting off sending this back to China.. I have a feeling it'll be gone for a month or more.
Ouch Sorry To Here Better Send Back 2 Repair
Mine's fallen from my lap onto pavement twice, getting out of the car of course, but so far my Otterbox Commuter has saved it.
My GN screen hair line cracked mysteriously.
My GN screen hair line cracked mysteriously.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rkz36Q-xZY
Galaxy nexus screen cracks far too easily. - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rkz36Q-xZY
Others have no idea how it’s happened to their phones as well!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21535889
Maybe it’s the new fortified glass design that’s flawed?
Maybe it’s weather related, from indoor to cold outdoors?
Maybe it’s just a bad design overall?
I just want to warn others of it’s extreme fragility.
Maybe it's you, bumping into something hard and pointy?
I've dropped mine twice on ceramic tile from waist height and had no damage other than a couple of scratches on the screen. Maybe it was just a particularly unlucky drop?
lol yeah phone on lap while driving is death for phones.... done that many many many times with too many phones.
update
BestBuy Canada's mobile communications manager Danielle has worked out a 50% off new phone option for me, as their policy they say is no "physically" damaged phones can be returned.
I have asked for an Iphone 4s 64gb in order to resell it and recoup my loss with via the accelerated deprecation screen defect of this galaxy nexus.
maybememe said:
My GN screen hair line cracked mysteriously.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rkz36Q-xZY
Galaxy nexus screen cracks far too easily. - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rkz36Q-xZY
Others have no idea how it’s happened to their phones as well!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21535889
Maybe it’s the new fortified glass design that’s flawed?
Maybe it’s weather related, from indoor to cold outdoors?
Maybe it’s just a bad design overall?
I just want to warn others of it’s extreme fragility.
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I've had my phone for about 2 months or so. Found out the hard way how fragile the glass was when my keys left a few minor scratches on it the second day of use. Well yesterday the hairline crack appeared between the power button and the volume rocker. Samsung says its physical damage caused by dropping the phone or having it in my pocket. What... I can't put my phone in my pocket anymore. Well the long and short of it is I have to send the phone back to the country of origin England in this case and I have to pay for the repair. I'm trying to find the glass assembly so I can replace it my self. So far no luck on Google. I agree with all the comments about the glass being too weak on this phone. Long live the Nexus one which I've switched back to till I figure out how to get this galaxy broken glass fixed.
I've got a broken line on Glass of my Gnex, I hate, very hate, this at only 4 month of usage.
Can i send my Gnex to Samsung and use a Warranty to change it?
This is a genuine question so I'm not trying to get anyone's back up, but is mobile insurance not that popular outside the UK? You can barely leave the stores here without being sold it!
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I'm pretty sure phone insurance is popular in a lot of places. Asurion here in the US is only like $2 or $5 a month, with a $100 deductible for any smartphone that has been lost, damaged, etc...
anton2009 said:
I'm pretty sure phone insurance is popular in a lot of places. Asurion here in the US is only like $2 or $5 a month, with a $100 deductible for any smartphone that has been lost, damaged, etc...
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I assumed so, but tend to see a lot of similar posts of damaged or defective phones and no mention of insurance. Always seems to focus on returns or DIY repairs. Just wondered if insurance was particularly costly overseas. Seems not.
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killyouridols said:
I assumed so, but tend to see a lot of similar posts of damaged or defective phones and no mention of insurance. Always seems to focus on returns or DIY repairs. Just wondered if insurance was particularly costly overseas. Seems not.
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I called asurion and was told that my nexus was covered. What I wonder is if I break, lose it or whatever will they be replacing with another nexus or give me a substitute. Anyone have more info on that?
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I called asurion and was told that my nexus was covered. What I wonder is if I break, lose it or whatever will they be replacing with another nexus or give me a substitute. Anyone have more info on that?
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In the UK you get either a cash value or a replacement nexus. You would only get a substitute if the goods are no longer on general sale. Usually electronic goods I have claimed on have been cash (minus the excess) to the phones purchase price. Make sure you have advised them and can prove the cost or you may end up with a settlement below the phones true value.
For example, my laptop was worth £500 when new, but I have only insured it for £300 as I know I can get a decent replacement and keep my premiums down. I have my nexus insured for £400 as I know this will buy most new phones outright should I lose it
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So as the title says, i'm able to get a Gnex for $50 + the repair costs.
my friends dad dropped his Nexus, broke the glass and wants an s3, so he's selling me his nexus for $50. It's only the glass that's cracked, touchscreen and the actual screen itself still works.
I was looking at dissasembly vids, and galaxy nexus repair parts online and found that the screen assembly appears to be a whole.
You can buy that whole assembly for approx. $150. But I also found this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Outer-Front...273?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2572820bc9 which appears to be just the glass front that I need. (excuse me if I can't link outside).
Is it possible to separate the front glass panel from the screen?
I build computers and i've repaired my DHD in the past, so I guess I could say that i'm advanced in repairing techniques, but i'm not really comfortable with soldering electronics or anything. Is it just a case of prying the broken glass off and glueing the new glass back on?
As a poor college student, i'd much rather attempt a difficult repair, than going the easy way and paying $150 bucks for a new screen assembly.
Any help would be MUCH appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
-Mark
Can't take it apart... they are fused together. Don't make my mistake and buy the lens on eBay. My advice is buying a used LCD digitizer from eBay or it still works fine sell it on eBay and double your money... you could get about 100 on there
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Hi Guys,
So my S3 bit the dust last week and I have gotten an Nexus 5 as a replacement.
My S3 has three major issues and I am trying to decide what if anything to do with it, or what the possible value of it is.
This is a 32gb model locked to my local carrier (Rogers)
1. The glass has a crack, it fell while out of my Otterbox and the glass got a spider crack on it, the LCD panel and digitizer were still working perfectly fine last time I used it a week ago. The screen protector is on top of the glass.
2. the OS is screwed up, I was having issues with the modem and connecting to my carrier and SIM and flashed a .zip file with a baseband and it caused my phone to instantly hardbrick.
3. I thought a JTAG servicing would revive the device back to stock OS so I brought it into a local shop for the JTAG (and then likely the glass replacement if they could get the S3 unbricked) they told me that the IC power chip in the device is broken. How that happened I have no idea, last thing I did with the phone was flash a .zip file to it via ClockworkMod Recovery, no idea how doing THAT broke an actual chip in the board of the phone.
So now I have a device that is screwed on three levels.
Any idea what I should do with it now. Anyone had experience with a broken IC chip? Is it worth anything on the ebay market for parts?
I see people selling the IC chip online but I am not even going to attempt soldering things to the main board.
nobody?
bueller?
you can get a replacement glass for less than 20 USD
Jtag... anybody's guess
bad chip? possibly damaged when it fell (cracked traces, etc)
I'd try to fix the first 2, but that 3rd one is a nail in the coffin. For what its worth, these things are second rate in less than a year and obsolete in 3.
It might be time to move on.
I would post an ad to see if anybody would like to buy it for spare parts. If you get no responses after a while, I would toss it in the trash.
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My friend's Nexus 7 2013 was just recently cracked while in his pocket. The screen has two small cracks running diagonally across the screen. The digitizer works but not completely. I have been unable to find out if the LCD is glued to the Digitizer and glass or not. Is he able to replace the glass and digitizer easily with something like this without having to heat up glue, or does he need to replace the entire display assembly, including the LCD? Thanks
From my understanding the digitizer is fuzed to the lcd and would require a heat gun . I've never done it but from what I've read its quite difficult to do, I had a 2012 nexus 7 that got a cracked screen and I bought a bricked one, and swapped the soc's. The 2012 was pretty easy to crack open tho, did it with my fingernails, idk how easy the 2013 is to open. You may be able to go the rout I did with my old 2012, possibly find a bricked one on eBay for cheaper than a brand new display assembly, and swap the motherboards.
Best of luck
I've smashed the screen on my 2013 LTE, I've been trying to get a replacement, but people keep telling me that the LTE screen and digitizer are different from the standard one, is this true and if so can someone point me in the direction of a good replacement.
Thanks in advance,
Nick
Giving this a bump because I have the same question. Bought a Deb that apparently had a tiny crack that caused touchscreen issues. Popping the cover off the back opened it up.
Most retailers don't mention the frame being different)?) . If that's true where can we get the correct display.