I cracked my screen recently and it is the most annoying thing ever. And this little purple pixel is just creeping up it and every time I reboot my phone it gets bigger. So I went to look for a screen replacement and I found a 5.5 inch display but I don't have a clue on how to get my screen out. Since the back is not removable I can't find any videos or instructions on how to remove it. Could someone be of assistance?
There is someone in the 816 forums here on xda who did it and made a thread about it.
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Ok, so I didn't know that, that (from my other post) was "Insurance fraud". So I decided to fix the phone myself, Insurance cancelled. Now as you may already know, I stood on my phone. I am guessing that the Digitizer is the touch panel and the screen is a the botton displaying the image.. Once the damage was done, I quickly checked if the phone was alright so I pressed the "Unlock key" and had to swipe the unlock screen to see if the phone was working, so obviously the Digitizer is working as it did change to homescreen when I swiped the screen.
As I panicked I took the battery out, and turning the phone back on hoping it will work, It did not. Some green dots and lines started apearing. Then it stopped displaying, so a black screen after the vibration when I'm turning on the phone.
I also know that the phone is still working because when I plug it into my computer Windows 7 has that little bleep..
The glass screen is not cracked but, when you look at the screen at an angle you see the some scratches (or cracks) underneath on the AMOLED..
Now, my question is, do I need a new AMOLED or a new Digitizer?
thanks for your time!
edit; I've been looking at abit of nexus one Screens/Digitizer's, they seem cheaper, so would they work with a Desire?
So I have a used CDMA US Cellular Desire (SLCD), and today, a screen imperfection appeared. It's not a scratch, and there's no dead pixels. I think the picture will show what I'm trying to say.
I have a screen protector on, and it seriously showed up randomly. The screen still works, and aside from a small difference in brightness there's nothing wrong.
Any sort of diagnosis?
Have you taken your screen protector off it looks like its under that.....
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Kinda looks like the screen has actually cracked. Don't know if it has but if it bothers you (I know it would bother me) I would get a new screen or something.
i had asimilar issue with my iphone and it turned out to b a bubble under the screen protector. i dropped my phone and the screen proptector took the impact which left a bubble, but a bubble is better then a crack. id buy a new screen protector and peel her off to double check. htc has a good policy with there customers and i bet you could get a new phone
Sorry, I was gone for a while and forgot about this. It went away the next day! And no, it wasn't on the screen protector. I guess it was some kind of oil that took a little time to evaporate.
Hey people!
Ive recently put the weight of a couch on the screen of my phone. My screen was already cracked from a previous drop but everything looked fine still.
After putting that much weight on my screen, half my screen is permanently black unless I put pressure near the bottom of my phone. It somehow releases the blackness temporarily.
My question is [Q] do I need to replace just the screen or did I screw up something else as well?
TIA
I have the same problem with my screen now. To fix it you need a new LCD. The cracked up front part is called the digitizer and you might as well replace them both together now. Only problem is to find out if you have a wide or slim LCD connecter cable and there's no way to tell until your phone is disassembled. Good luck!
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here's a evo teardown guide
http://www.ifixit.com/blog/blog/2010/06/01/htc-evo-4g-teardown/
Hello everyone,
I know there's a lot of threads about broken screens out there but I could not find a precise answer to my question.
This is what happened. My HTC Desire (with AMOLED) fell on the ground. When I picked it up I noticed a crack. It seemed like it was not on the touchscreen but underneath it. Also, in the first hours the display worked well like always despite the crack. Then, the next morning, I woke up to a surprise. The screen was now loosing it's colors and everything was in a kind of violet range. The next day, the screen was completely black (but I could feel that the touchscreen was still working because of the small vibration during unlocking).
Of course, the "official" screen replacement is too expensive for me and I think I can do it myself. The problem is that I can not find a site that's selling AMOLED screens for HTC Desire, only LCD. So there's my question : is it possible to replace an AMOLED screen with a LCD screen (on the HTC Desire)? Or maybe someone knows a site that's selling AMOLED screens for HTC Desire?
Thank you in advance.
Switching screen for screen won't work. At least you would need to replace the digitizer too, and I'm not sure will it work with your motherboard. Total cost of screen + digitizer would be around $110.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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I know people mentioned different digitizer for different screens. I'm not sure that's true but a different motherboard would be required.
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Hey, so as the title suggests I dropped my phone which caused a crack at the lower right corner.
Now I remember when the phone only came out everyone were saying its not possible to only change the screen and that you need to change the screen plus the amoled screen and digitizer.
Now I after searching the forums I saw this thread-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946828
It looks very promising but its also quite old.
I was wondering if anyone had any recent experience with replacing just the glass screen of the GSM Galaxy Nexus.
Also his link for the New Adhesive is dead, can anyone provide me with a link to a new adhesive? or it doesn't really matter which one I buy off ebay.
Thanks a lot! I really like this phone and hopefully I wont have to replace tons of stuff to get the screen fixed.
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Hey, so as the title suggests I dropped my phone which caused a crack at the lower right corner.
Now I remember when the phone only came out everyone were saying its not possible to only change the screen and that you need to change the screen plus the amoled screen and digitizer.
Now I after searching the forums I saw this thread-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946828
It looks very promising but its also quite old.
I was wondering if anyone had any recent experience with replacing just the glass screen of the GSM Galaxy Nexus.
Also his link for the New Adhesive is dead, can anyone provide me with a link to a new adhesive? or it doesn't really matter which one I buy off ebay.
Thanks a lot! I really like this phone and hopefully I wont have to replace tons of stuff to get the screen fixed.
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Same thing happened to me last week. I think it is quite possible to change just the glass, but i haven't tried it yet.
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It is possible to change just the glass :fingers-crossed:. We just did that using a string. There is a video of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7BmmDCKBgQ :good: