So last night i dropped my tablet and the screen had cracks all over it, well i watched a bunch of tear down, and screen repair videos on youtube, then tried to take it apart to fix it myself. But when i tried to remove the silver motherboard ribbon cable, the white connector broke off of the motherboard. :crying: :crying:
Note that warranty expired several months ago.
What should i do? is $50 replacement motherboard and $50 screen assembly worth it?
CampRifles said:
So last night i dropped my tablet and the screen had cracks all over it, well i watched a bunch of tear down, and screen repair videos on youtube, then tried to take it apart to fix it myself. But when i tried to remove the silver motherboard ribbon cable, the white connector broke off of the motherboard. :crying: :crying:
Note that warranty expired several months ago.
What should i do? is $50 replacement motherboard and $50 screen assembly worth it?
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I would say no, as a 32 gb refurbished full unit can be found on amazon for 140-160. They start at 100 for the 16 gb version.
Buy a refurb instead of repairing that one, then sell the old one for parts on ebay or something.
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I sent in my broken phone with a shattered screen and cracked LCD. It's costing 140$ for the whole deal; has anyone else had this done to their phones?
I havnt heard of anyone doing such, taking the evo apart and replacing the screen/digitizer isnt too awful difficult for one to do on their own. Theires a youtube video with an excelent teardown. But it states a t4 torx to remove the 6 screws but mine were t5
I mailed mine in last thursday 10/14 for a non-responsive touch screen only on the right edge (faulty digitizer I assume). I un-rooted and mailed it in. I told the guy on the phone about my hairline power button crack and he said that wasn't covered by the warranty and they might have to charge me ~$140 to fix it. Called yesterday and they have replaced the screen and it is enroute via fedex should be here tomorrow 10/20 and they didn't charge my anything! I would have been pretty pissed if they had because the faulty digitzer is in no way due to customer abuse.
But yeah, a broken/cracked screen can probably be attributed to customer use and therefore isn't covered by the warranty
I had my touch pro repaired thru them and they repaired all the cosmetic stuff along with the unresponsive keyboard which was the reason I initiated the RMA.
I'm about to send in my Evo, the charging/usb port works intermittently
Frickin sucks goats nutz LOL
I recently replaced just the broken glass screen on my evo. When I turned it on now, the screen is all black now. I hear it still working, I hear SMS and phone calls, but cant see anything. I didnt replace the entire LCD just the clear part. When I was prying the clear screen off, it was sticking to the lcd, which also was cracked. So I got the screen off but the other part came with it. I dont know if it was connected to the LCD and it was broken off or if its ok seperated. Its just the dark looks like tinted glass that goes directly over the LCD and under the clear screen (digitizer). So, can anyone tell me if maybe I damaged the LCD screen.
Thanks in advance.
So before replacing the glass/digitizer, the lcd still worked fine? Based on your description it sounds like the lcd. You may just have a loose ribbon connection...have you tried redoing the ribbons?
I'm about to dive into the same mission. Thinking twice about it now.....
Yes the glass was broken for about 1 month but it still worked fine the LCD was working. I've tried reconnecting the ribbons various times also tried connecting the old glass digitizer, but still the same result. I'm not sure if that tinted screen was part of the LCD and is now broken or if I somehow damaged something else when I was connecting it.
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I'm about to dive into the same mission. Thinking twice about it now.....
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to tell the truth changing just the glass is definitely the cheapest route, but from what I've read is more difficult than buying the whole replacement LCD. I paid $25 on eBay but the whole LCD is closer to like $75.
Michael61182 said:
to tell the truth changing just the glass is definitely the cheapest route, but from what I've read is more difficult than buying the whole replacement LCD. I paid $25 on eBay but the whole LCD is closer to like $75.
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So you mean it is easier to purchase a digitizer and LCD that still connected as one piece (http://www.globaldirectparts.com/Sprint-HTC-Evo-4G-LCD-p/htc736815.htm) as opposed to doing the digitizer or LCD individually? If I went that route I would just pay a 3rd party cell phone repair shop to do the work for 100 bucks...then you can hold someone else accountable.
I found the LCD here for cheap: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250782149841&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
Supposed to arrive tomorrow so I will find out if the lcd is indeed the problem
thanks for that link, I may have to try that.
Has anyone had to replace the screen on their evo? Roundabout how much did it cost? Im trying to figure out whether to fix the screen on my phone or just get a new phone all together.
I got a replacement on Amazkn for like $28, and it wasn't too hard to replace. Just be careful with the other wires in the phone.
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$35.00 at sprint
$11 at eBay, mine works just fine..I saw the tutorial at youtube, not too hard
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$35.00 at sprint
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Repair centers are no longer replacing screens for them in stor .. gotta do an insurance claim now.
tornacl said:
Repair centers are no longer replacing screens for them in stor .. gotta do an insurance claim now.
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Well I got very lucky. The screen on my device started forming a very noticeable white spot in the middle, took it to Sprint and they replacee it for free. I also got the ear piece and the speaker replaced at no charge. All I did was call ahead and set up an appointment.
Prices can vary on eBay, but I just replaced my wife's Evo LCD, and Touch Digitizer. I got both parts preassembled for about $50. For instructions I went to ifixit.com and searched for HTC Evo, but it only took me 20 minutes total.
like others have mentioned, its not difficult at all. Their is a video on you tube telling you exactly how to do it. I think total with the tools and screen replacement total was around $35.
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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So I dropped my screen a few months back and the glass cracked. It still worked $100 percent and since the glass wasn't shattered it didn't prevent me from using it. It was only annoying me so i decided to order a new glass and replace the glass. During this replacement I completely ****ed the phone up.
From what I understand there are 3 separate pieces, the LCD, the touchscreen digitizer, and the glass itself. I was supposed to pull the glass apart from the digitizer but instead pulled both up leaving only the lcd behind. In the process I completely shattered both glass and digitizer and severed a ribbon cable.
I couldn't link to an imgur album and the images were too large to attach so i put them in a rar file. As you can see in the pictures my new glass is completely transparent and the old broken one has a tint to it, and an extra layer attached. That was how I came to the conclusion it was the digitizer. I have tried to see if I could just replace the digitizer but all the pictures I've seen don't show the cable that I severed. I have no idea what that cable does, only that it was connected to the tinted portion of the glass.
Important to note is that the phone works. I hear it power on and if i get a notification it plays the sound and vibrates no issue. I just can't SEE anything. Does this mean the LCD is broken too? Or will it only power up when it has the digitizer attached? Is this repairable, if so, how? if not, where did I go wrong?
At this moment I am not due for an upgrade til June, and I don't have more than $100 to spend on a replacement so if I can I'd like to fix this one to both save money and not have to downgrade to a lesser phone.
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So I dropped my screen a few months back and the glass cracked. It still worked $100 percent and since the glass wasn't shattered it didn't prevent me from using it. It was only annoying me so i decided to order a new glass and replace the glass. During this replacement I completely ****ed the phone up.
From what I understand there are 3 separate pieces, the LCD, the touchscreen digitizer, and the glass itself. I was supposed to pull the glass apart from the digitizer but instead pulled both up leaving only the lcd behind. In the process I completely shattered both glass and digitizer and severed a ribbon cable.
I couldn't link to an imgur album and the images were too large to attach so i put them in a rar file. As you can see in the pictures my new glass is completely transparent and the old broken one has a tint to it, and an extra layer attached. That was how I came to the conclusion it was the digitizer. I have tried to see if I could just replace the digitizer but all the pictures I've seen don't show the cable that I severed. I have no idea what that cable does, only that it was connected to the tinted portion of the glass.
Important to note is that the phone works. I hear it power on and if i get a notification it plays the sound and vibrates no issue. I just can't SEE anything. Does this mean the LCD is broken too? Or will it only power up when it has the digitizer attached? Is this repairable, if so, how? if not, where did I go wrong?
At this moment I am not due for an upgrade til June, and I don't have more than $100 to spend on a replacement so if I can I'd like to fix this one to both save money and not have to downgrade to a lesser phone.
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You can buy a replacement screen with a digitizer attached but it will cost over $100 and the way your phone is now it may not be worth doing yourself. You can get a pro install for around $200. You may want to wait for your upgrade then.
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You can buy a replacement screen with a digitizer attached but it will cost over $100 and the way your phone is now it may not be worth doing yourself. You can get a pro install for around $200. You may want to wait for your upgrade then.
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Yeah I was hoping there was a cheap fix but I screwed myself. I ended up buying one off eBay that has a bad charging port for $100. I'm just going to swap the mobo and I should be good to go.
Sucks I had to spend the money, it was a gift from my brother for a birthday tattoo, butit's a learning experience. If I ever try to tackle a glass replacement again I know what NOT to do.