I need to replace the screen on my daughters phone and i've been watching a few videos on how to do it. At one point during the videos the person demonstrating the technique heats the screen to remove it before replacing it. If I get a replacement screen with the frame included will I need to do that step?
Yes. The screen is held on to the body with adhesive (glue or tape). By heating it up, the adhesive weakens and you can remove the screen.
Without heat you are much more likely to shatter the screen as you remove it.
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***Need help*** with broken/ cracked screen on my vibrant. Anyone here know how to replace and where to buy a screen. Touchscreen still works fine, but I have 2 vertical cracks down the phone and 2 across horizontally. Please help.
Vibrant ROOTED and on TOXIC CRACK
try repairs universe
also there is a youtube video on how to do it
I also cracked mine some time ago. The kits sold on ebay is fine. It includes amoled+gorilla glass, because amoled is so thin that it is impossible to sell it independently. There are several videos on youtube. It is not a hard replacement, I'm sure you can do it yourself. Just disassemble it and after removing mainboard, you remove data bus of the screen, then connect the new screen's data bus. Mine works perfect
I replaced my broken screen but it is not easy. The youtube videos make it look easier than it is. Besides a 2 mm phillips and a pry tool, you will need tweezers, strong reading glasses, something like rubber cement because the screen is really just glued in there, good lighting, and a lot of patience. I have worked on laptops and this is harder.
Once you figure out that the front bezel isn't designed to hold the screen in, it becomes a bit less frustrating but it took me about three hours and lots of scraping of little pieces of broken screen glass out of the front bezel frame. It's back together but I must have gotten the microphone in backwards because it doesn't work, or maybe a wire pulled off the mic. The supplemental menu button in the lower left hand corner does not work either. .
Do yourself a favor and buy a new phone, the AMOLED+Gorilla glass is like 75% of the total cost. Gorilla glass is cheap about $25 but it is extremly hard to replace. at least it is very difficult to remove without inflicting any damage to the phone or the AMOLED. If you go for it. you can use heat to soften the adhesive but be careful that AMOLED is extremly fragile on its own and the touch screen can get easily burned.
After looking on Global Direct, it seems the eBay screen replacement kits don't include everything you need. The phone originally uses die cut adhesive stickers instead of glue to keep the screen in. Screens can be had for $100-$120, less than the phone, but the lower button - mic assembly flex-pcb seems prone to being screwed up 'cause my lower left button and mic won't work now. My screen was pretty well crumbled especially around the lower buttons and perhaps it was just unavoidable that I damaged the lower button mic pcb trying to scrape the glass off.. A new pcb costs around $40 and that is getting up to the price of the phone. Still, being able to successfully disassemble the phone and know how it works could be useful. Some people might be clever enough to upgrade stock parts like putting in a better mic, arctic-silver-epoxying a thin sheet heatsink to the cpu to aid in ocing, etc. The new screen did not break and looks pristine, though, it's just that I f**ked up something else putting it in.
My little cousin have EVO with shattered screen, and I am trying to get him replacement part. Screen has couple cracks but if fully functional so I am thinking which of following I should get...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-HTC-Evo...939?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aa37ae05b
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LCD-Screen-...607?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b6c5d6e7
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-OEM-HTC...536?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a158d59d0
What is difference beside price ? Looks like cheep one is just outside glass and other two might have full screen ?
Now back to phone... Outside layer of glas is cracked but is there anything damaged inside I have no idea (i doubt any damage is there since screen fully operative). What do you guys thing? I can upload some pictures tonight around 6 (Central time).
From experience here is what I will tell you. The easiest thing to do is to replace the entire front housing. The front glass can be replaced but you risk breaking the lcd underneath. You can get the front piece of glass off by either taking a razor and cutting it from the adhesive or taking a heat gun (or hair drier will work) and heating it until the adhesive losens enough to pull the glass off. The problem with replacing the front housing is you need to know if it is a wide cable or small cable. The only way to know this for sure is to open the phone and look at the bottom ribbon of the left side of the board, this is the lcd ribbon and that will tell you if it needs to be big or little. Some people will tell you that you can look at the letters on the bottom right of the sticker where the esn is (they will be like a, b, c, xa, etc.) but this does not always work. I fix these everyday and have seen all boards with both types of screens. Hope this helps.
I broke my screen a while ago, and decided recently to go ahead and change it myself. I ordered a glass for 10$ on Ebay and when it arrived, I followed a tutorial on Youtube where I had to heat the front of my phone, then with a knife or something sharp lift the glass, then put the net one after I was sure everything was properly cleaned.
The problem is my screen was so shattered in some places that it was really hard to remove everything so I ended up applying more pressure on the AMOLED to remove the remaining glass pieces.
So I cleaned it afterwards, and placed the new one. Booted, and VICTORY, everything works... Or so I thought.
I noticed my touch screen now behaves oddly. For example if I type too fast it will miss some letters. If I press to hard on the screen it will become like it's completely unbalanced, registering toush inputs anywhere until I close I turn the screen off and back on.
If I try to draw on the screen (in Draw Something, for example) it won't be accurate, to the point I can't really play the game anymore.
My question is : do you think I broke something when applying heat (I didn't apply that much so I don't think so) or when removing the hard-to-remove last glass pieces? Or did I simply made some mistake when replacing the glass and it's not correctly in place (I noticed it's a little higher relatively to the bezel, compared to what it was before)? Maybe it's not perfectly in place...
Thank you for your advice! I'm a noob hardware-wise so I have no idea at all what's the problem!
Hi all,
i'm very disappointed because i'm just breaking my screen when my zenfone fall of 60cm.
LCD is ok but screen is dead
On ebay i know you can find only the screen with kit, and LCD + screen
Does any one have advice for replacing the screen or screen + lcd? (video or pictures).
Asus France ask me 180€ to change that
thank for your help...
pulesky said:
Hi all,
i'm very disappointed because i'm just breaking my screen when my zenfone fall of 60cm.
LCD is ok but screen is dead
On ebay i know you can find only the screen with kit, and LCD + screen
Does any one have advice for replacing the screen or screen + lcd? (video or pictures).
Asus France ask me 180€ to change that
thank for your help...
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Seems pretty easy, please check these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMIivqu6XJY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4HZt3Aadsc
I ordered a screen replacement on AliExpress. I've only cracked the glass on my phone, but I don't think it's possible to replace the glass on its own. (Unless you have the hands of a neurosurgeon and special equipment.)
Tried changing screen today, but it requires a complete disassemble of the unit. I managed to remove the back and disconnect the components, however I wasn't able to remove the battery since it seems to be glued (?) in place on one side. I even tried using quite a bit of force, but eventually I chickened out since the battery started bending. I have no idea how they do it so easily in the video. If anyone here has managed this disassemble I'd be very interested in getting some details.
dodongobongo said:
I ordered a screen replacement on AliExpress. I've only cracked the glass on my phone, but I don't think it's possible to replace the glass on its own. (Unless you have the hands of a neurosurgeon and special equipment.)
Tried changing screen today, but it requires a complete disassemble of the unit. I managed to remove the back and disconnect the components, however I wasn't able to remove the battery since it seems to be glued (?) in place on one side. I even tried using quite a bit of force, but eventually I chickened out since the battery started bending. I have no idea how they do it so easily in the video. If anyone here has managed this disassemble I'd be very interested in getting some details.
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Try using a hair dryer on the battery for a minute, but keep moving the hair dryer up and down, to spread the heat all over, this should make the glue soft enough to make it easier to peel the battery off.
Finally managed to replace the screen. This one was really difficult to repair compared to the previous phones I've worked on, but maybe in part because there are no complete instructions out there yet. Lots of glue and tape holding it all together.
The battery isn't really glued, but rather held down by some sticky plastic. (Kinda like chewing gum.) I don't think heating will help here. I used a long, flat plastic object to reach underneath and loosen it from the battery.
I forgot to take pictures, but here are the steps I took. You can find some photos for the first half of the procedure.
Remove 14 screws from the back cover
Carefully remove back plastic cover (double sided tape on center)
Unplug the three connectors going to the top PCB/SoC (these are screen, SIM/SD and battery)
Remove speaker (black piece at the bottom, nothing is holding it in place)
Remove bottom PCB: flip up the little black switch to loosen the connector cable next to the battery, then unplug the wire going to the top PCB, then you can remove it. Vibrator piece doesn't need to be unplugged.
Battery can now be removed, but is as mentioned fastened very well. Try to pull it up on the left side to reach under it.
Unplug digitizer connector on the left side of the top PCB. Just peel off the yellow take and pull it out.
Peel loose the part of the metallic shielding that fastened the top PCB to the surface under where the battery was.
Top PCB can now be removed, start from right side.
Peel off the little "sticker" the digitizer connector goes to. This is probably part of what you're replacing, so it doesn't matter if you destroy it in the process. Otherwise try heating it.
Screen can finally be removed. It's removed from the front of the phone, same as for Zenfone 5. Start at the bottom. It's fastened with glue along all sides. If you're hoping not to ruin the LCD while removing the screen you will probably need a heat gun and extreme patience.
dodongobongo said:
Finally managed to replace the screen. This one was really difficult to repair compared to the previous phones I've worked on, but maybe in part because there are no complete instructions out there yet. Lots of glue and tape holding it all together.
The battery isn't really glued, but rather held down by some sticky plastic. (Kinda like chewing gum.) I don't think heating will help here. I used a long, flat plastic object to reach underneath and loosen it from the battery.
I forgot to take pictures, but here are the steps I took. You can find some photos for the first half of the procedure.
Remove 14 screws from the back cover
Carefully remove back plastic cover (double sided tape on center)
Unplug the three connectors going to the top PCB/SoC (these are screen, SIM/SD and battery)
Remove speaker (black piece at the bottom, nothing is holding it in place)
Remove bottom PCB: flip up the little black switch to loosen the connector cable next to the battery, then unplug the wire going to the top PCB, then you can remove it. Vibrator piece doesn't need to be unplugged.
Battery can now be removed, but is as mentioned fastened very well. Try to pull it up on the left side to reach under it.
Unplug digitizer connector on the left side of the top PCB. Just peel off the yellow take and pull it out.
Peel loose the part of the metallic shielding that fastened the top PCB to the surface under where the battery was.
Top PCB can now be removed, start from right side.
Peel off the little "sticker" the digitizer connector goes to. This is probably part of what you're replacing, so it doesn't matter if you destroy it in the process. Otherwise try heating it.
Screen can finally be removed. It's removed from the front of the phone, same as for Zenfone 5. Start at the bottom. It's fastened with glue along all sides. If you're hoping not to ruin the LCD while removing the screen you will probably need a heat gun and extreme patience.
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Just cracked my phone. :crying:Thanks for the instructions. Before I decide to do this, are any of the adhesives necessary to put the phone back together?
Yes, order some double-tape for cellphones.
Glad I'm not the only one that succeded althought I scrapped the battery in my case .
I followed mostly the same steps but for anyone that want some pictures, I posted them in another thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/q-lcd-replacement-procedure-t3135165
Can asus ze550ml screen will fit to ze550kl model
@Ptselv: probably best to start a new thread rather than hijack one that is several months old.
And to answer your question: No, a ZE550ML screen will not fit a ZE550KL phone. My suggestion: search AliExpress.com for "ze551kl digitizer" and you'll be likely to find what you need.
Hello guys,
I had an accident where I spilled liquid on top of my phone's screen, it was alcohol based, so it got through the bottom speaker and went to the screen layers. After a couple of days of trying to dry it out, there are still terrible looking streaks that look like water damage. I tried using a hair dryer and a suction tool from my car mount for the phone, to remove the screen, but it won't budge. This method worked easy with my old Nexus 5. Some heat, I pull up and it comes right off. With this - I heated as much as I can, and then pulled with all my strength, but screen will not come loose from the frame.
Has anyone removed the screen on their phone, or does anyone have experience in doing such things, to help me pull this off?
I believe that if I manage to remove the screen, and clean the layers, screen should be back to 100%.
I asked a friend of mine to lend me his heat gun, but I am afraid of applying too much heat and killing the LCD, or doing bad things to the plastic body of the phone.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Have you checked out the dismantle video on youtube? I believe you have to go through the back.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+5X+Teardown/51318
NO! I know how ti disassemble the phone... What you are posting doesn't even include the screen separation from the frame.
I have been watching videos a lot, but I myself, after following them, am unable to separate screen from frame. And to be fair there is just 1-2 videos out there that actually show people doing that. In one a dude used heat, a suction tool and a precision knife to lift the screen from the frame. I don't think using a metal tool on a heated plastic, to lift a glass is a good idea, especially when the adhesive is so strong. I guess the screen from that video has already been removed, that is why it looked so doable. I bet if I try that, I will f*ck up my pristine frame (phone is 1,5 months old)
You have to go through the back. See link https://youtu.be/Y8XpqwLsrUo
Same problem here, I cannot manage to separate the screen from the frame. Did you manage to remove it?
I broke that damn glass into pieces from the back holes, allowing me to insert a guitar plectrum and finally remove it all. Fixed