its not like everyone doesnt have "clean rooms", professional grade hot plates, and industrial sized air vacuums ....
oops, i forgot the cool white suits... cant forget the suits...
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DIY GUIDE TO REPLACING THE 19$ BROKEN GLASS on the galaxy note
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its not like everyone doesnt have "clean rooms", professional grade hot plates, and industrial sized air vacuums ....
oops, i forgot the cool white suits... cant forget the suits...
but i repeat. you can perfect do it in a "amateur way" if you want to save some money. At the end the results are more than acceptable....
youtube[dot]com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=U-Z74JUtmdI
spainsh. 3 parts.
I tried, failed, spent $200 on a replacement 
I would recommend to try though, my thought process was that it'd be insane to not try and fix it for $12 before fixing it for $200, right?
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I would recommend to try though, my thought process was that it'd be insane to not try and fix it for $12 before fixing it for $200, right?Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA Premium HD app
I have been doing repairs for about a year now, and I have been receiving inquiries to purchase my broken iphone displays. So that got me thinking. I have contacted a few places and have found a possible solution for repair shops. This will be price prohibitive for DYI.
Here are two videos of screen separators:
This one is hand operated: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/4i1Ot1jItw0/
This one is auto: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/g5cD2Ll72zI/
My understanding is this is the glue used to adhere the new digitizer: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/50g-Liquid-optical-clear-adhesive-uv-glue-for-touch-panel-screen-glass-digitizer-lcd-repair-EMS/728721485.html
This has not been tested by me, this is only information that has been passed down to me so I can expand my shop. kawgirlval69 are you familiar with any of this.
Here are two videos of screen separators:
This one is hand operated: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/4i1Ot1jItw0/
This one is auto: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/g5cD2Ll72zI/
My understanding is this is the glue used to adhere the new digitizer: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/50g-Liquid-optical-clear-adhesive-uv-glue-for-touch-panel-screen-glass-digitizer-lcd-repair-EMS/728721485.html
This has not been tested by me, this is only information that has been passed down to me so I can expand my shop. kawgirlval69 are you familiar with any of this.
quite familiar...... great for high end as in if you are going into business to refurb broken screens but for diy... not so much too much cost ..even costly for a small shop to have...
So if this is the high quality way to referb screens, can we learn from its processes to find a cheaper solution for diy? We know the screen needs to be heated, but to what temp? Will a hair dryer or heat gun provide the heat even enough to soften the adhesive? What is used to separate the glass? Braided fishing line or some sort of wire? What chemicals are best to remove the left over adhesive? Can it be bought in small quantities? The uv adhesive used to fuse he old LCD to the new digitizer, can it be bought in small quantities, and what is required to set it correctly?
So here is what I had in mind. Take a metal plate and mount a heat source such as heat gun or hair dryer under it. Super glue the broken digitizer to the plate and used the wire to separate the lcd similar to video one. If that works then all we need to figure out is how to properly clean the screen and cure the uv adhesive. If we can get these in small quantities this could be a good diy approach.
well all of the supplies are listed... knock yourself out... wish you the best of luck... just remember, if it were as easy as it looks everyone would already be doing it... then you have the cost of everything you need to do this.... by the time you figure it out youre close to as much as it would be to just replace it with a full unit... which would look a hell of a lot better than a dusty house environment diy... but what do i know...
fyi... the reason its a "hot plate" is for even heating and controlled temp... a CONSTANT temp....not one that FLUCTUATES..... hence the hair dryer and heat gun make it very difficult eg. too much repositioning of the dryer/gun and then it cools before you get it done or you over heat which i warn is quite easy to do...... then there is the whole bit of getting the unit out of the housing without damaging the lcd which is adhered to the frame..... not as easy as it sounds.... not being a hater just trying to give you all of the real world bumps you will run into...
again... probably not an affordable diy option... but i hope you kill it and make millions... ill be the first to congratulate you...
BTW I NEVER SAID IT WAS THE "HIGH QUALITY" WAY... you did...
Tried to replace the glass on Galaxy Note N7000 - total failure. Now replaced with a £130 new replacement digitizer which works perfectly.
I guess it's worth a shot for less than a fiver against the cost of a new assembly, but having tried this I'd be surprised if anyone's managed a totally successful result.
I guess it's worth a shot for less than a fiver against the cost of a new assembly, but having tried this I'd be surprised if anyone's managed a totally successful result.
I'm undecided on if I should close this or not. There is a lot of flaming in here.
But there is people that might want to post in here for information so it will be left open.
If the flaming starts back up though, I will close this thread.
~ The-Captain
But there is people that might want to post in here for information so it will be left open.
If the flaming starts back up though, I will close this thread.
~ The-Captain
im for closing it...the facts are there, probably every pro and con, and even how to's so people have the ability to read it and see if its a repair option for them...
Leave it open, please. I'll post my results when my glass arrives from China in about couple of weeks tops. :good:
Hello, A friend of mine tried to change the glass yesterday, we made it all out okay but the screen is ALL GREEN like there are only green pixels showing up, we havnt tried putting it off again to check where we might have misconnected the screen or something, can anyone point us toward which part of the phone or cable we must check ?
Or is the screen itself damaged ? (there is no black pixel or black line whatsoever, the screen looks perfect except it's all green huedright from the start (galaxy logo is green too) lol.
Thanks
Or is the screen itself damaged ? (there is no black pixel or black line whatsoever, the screen looks perfect except it's all green huedright from the start (galaxy logo is green too) lol.
Thanks
I don't know, I need to check if all the wires are at the right place, Theres only one dent on the LCD and to me it seems strange one dents would kill all the colors blue and red instead of making a dead line of pixels or something. We didn't heat the LCD much, not over 60°C
This is an excellent thread and please leave it open. I have replaced screen on i9000 before in the same way.....i did crunch a screen on the first one i tried ( didn't realise they were stuck together)
don't see the harm in having a go....as you have to pay the full price for a new digitizer+ screen anyway....so if it breaks foook it!! if not , you are sorted.
people who don't want to help or cant provide anything usefull should not post. That way the thread will stay clean.
I will be attempting to replace the casing on an s2.....hopefully it will go ok.
don't see the harm in having a go....as you have to pay the full price for a new digitizer+ screen anyway....so if it breaks foook it!! if not , you are sorted.
people who don't want to help or cant provide anything usefull should not post. That way the thread will stay clean.
I will be attempting to replace the casing on an s2.....hopefully it will go ok.
i was wondering if the LCD was glued to the digitizer glass.... dang, thats gonna be difficult to replace just the digitizer by itself.
This guy did it as well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV-80zTAfyc
I'm also looking at this, just because replacing the whole screen is always an option if this fails.. And it just seems wasteful to throw away a perfectly ok screen just because of some 'stickyness' .....
Any more tips / insights on improving the succesrate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV-80zTAfyc
I'm also looking at this, just because replacing the whole screen is always an option if this fails.. And it just seems wasteful to throw away a perfectly ok screen just because of some 'stickyness' .....
Any more tips / insights on improving the succesrate?
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24hi folks. i managed to replace my galaxy note front glass with a new one i got from ebay for 19$ and i want to make a step by step guide on how it can be done.
i did it using common tools and a s load of pacience and attention.
the tools i used are: heat gun with hi and low settings, exacto knife set,small phillips and flat screwdrivers, goo gone, and optional a screen protector.
first take the phone apart as it's describet in countless of threads and youtube videos. you should end up with the screen assembly shown in the first picture.
now we have to separate the glassscreen from the frame it sits on. for this we fire up the heat gun.
a few words about using the heat gun.
-my gun had 2 settings: low and high. during all this process i used it on low.
-don't put the gun directly and/or close to the thinn plastic wires that hold the two connectors.
- dont hold the gun in the same place more than 3 seconds, instead swipe the gun around the spot and the screen like u would do with a paint brush when painting.
- dont hold the gun too close, that is closer than 3 inch
-concentrate on the spot u working at but try to heat up the whole screen assembly, as it has to give away from all the points kind of at the same time, and not just the point u working at.
- dont overheat the screen as this will damage the amoled. thats how i got the two yellow spots on my screen. first one by accident and second one intentionaly to see if indeed the overheating is what caused it.
A very good rule for this is dont heat the phone more than you can bear to touch it cause afterall you have to hold the phone while working on it...
the way i did it is :
-i heated up the whole screen assembly, back and front, for a minute or two
- than i started to stick the tip of the exacto knife between the glass and the metal edge that sorrounds it. i started from the upper right corner, the side where the front camera is. see photo 2.
the goal is to unstick the glass from the frame. in photo 3 the frame and the screen is shown without the upper glass. this photo was taken after i finished everything, thats why the screen can be seen inside the frame. but i posted it to show the black sticky tape that its used to hold the glass to the frame. i think is the same kind of sticky tape thats used in all the touchphones including iphone to hold the front glass to the rest of the phone. in photo 4 i unsticked some of the tape to show it better. this tape is the main thing that holds the the glass to the frame. the other thing that hold the screen to the frame is some sticky glue on the back of the screen. but this is much softer and thiner glue. this is the reason why i say to heat up the whole screen assemby including the backside, to make it easyer to unstuck the glass and scren thats glued to it.
- once you get a bit of a foothold in the upper corner between and the glassand the frame you continue the folowing procedure again and again until the glass and screen detaches from the frame:
-every 2 minutes or so , when i feel the asemby cooled down, i'd heat up the whole assembly for 5 seconds or so, than concentrate on the spot i worked on for another 5 seconds, than move/push the exacto knife a bit. dont force it. after a while youl get a feel of it. if the exacto knife happend to be out, i would heat up the blade after heating up everything else, and than put the blade in.
prevent the freed parts from sticking back to the frame by using the rest of the exacto knife blades as shims.
once it detaches it should look like photo 5- the glass glued to the screen.
- now we have to detach or unglue the glass from the screen.
procedure is the same: start somewhere, heat, put knife in, etc... i used a second knife as shim folowing the first knife, and after avery couple moves i would get the knife out and wipe off the epoxy glue. heat the blade and put it back in.
when finished you should have something like photo 6 and 7: free screen covered in glue epoxy residue.
- now we have to get rid of the glue residue. i took the bulk of it usinga flat exacto knife blades like the one in photo 8 and 10. just warm the place a bit with the air gun and scrape it off with the blade. to clean what was left i used a bit of goo gone on a pice of cloth or napkin photo 9.
cleaned screen can be seen in photo 11 - sadly out of focus.
if u are like me and r impatient to test the screen you can just connect with just the side connector like in photo 12 and 13. the upper connector is for the s pen digitizer. side connector is for the screen and touch digitizer.
now all that's left is to put the phone back together except leave the new glass for last.
-first thing is to put the screen(without the glass) back on the frame. try to center it just right, so that ther's a little bit of space between the sides of the screen and the frame.
at this point all that will hold the screen to the frameis the thin layer of glue on the back of the screen. after centering and lowering the screen in the frame procede to put the phone back together folowing in reverse order the same steps used to disasambe it. when finished you should end up with the whole functioning phone except the front glass -as seen in photo 14.
now you can chose to trim and put a screen protector on the scree so as to fill the empty space between the screen and the glass - the space where the glue was, or you can just leave it empty. you can put a screen protector anytime after by removing the glass. which should be much easier to remove now that its held in place only by the blach sticky tape on the edges. just use some suction cap to remove it, starting at an age, and remove it like fliping a page. see photo 16. i used the note for 2 weeks without the screen protector in the empty space and it worked without a problem onlt thing was that when i pushed hard the glass would touch the screen and leave a bit of dirt in that place. thats why i decided to put the screen protector to fill the void. in photo 15 i raised the screen protector to make it visible in the photo.
if you are like me and worry that somehow the glass might fall off the phone you can always get a hard plastic case for the phone, like the one in the pics. it's made of 2 parts. one goes on the back one on the front and they snap togeter around the phone. this will hold the glass in place no matter what while it will also protect the phone.the case is in photos 17 and 18. i got this one of ebay for 8$ and free shipping.
the last thing to be done is:
for some reaseon the touch screen became much more sensitive after removing the glue so you need to lover the touch sensitivity. for this get the touchscreentune app from the market. it works with galaxy note and galaxy s2. put the sensitivity from the recomended 25 to 50.
the best thing about this procedure is that i dont have to worry about the f ing glass anymore. if it brakes again i'l just order another one and in under 2 minutes i can replace it. all i have to do is get the phone case off, put a suction cap on , , remove the old glass , and put the new glass. that's it.
because it takes 4 to 8 hours i would recommend the process to be done in 3-4 sessions as people would get tired after 2 hours of work and tend to lose focus, attention, patience and start to push to get it faster done, and that's when bad stuff happens like yellow spot burn on the screen or small scratches. another thing about scratches, even if u manage to scrach the screen dont worry to much as the scratches are almost invisible when the screen turns on. youl see what i mean ....
i do have one question: WHY DID SAMSUNG DECIDE TO GLUE THE SCREEN TO THE GLASS INSTEAD OF HAVING THEM SEPARATE LIKE ALL THE OTHER TOUCHPHONES?8
The sentence made no sense considering what it was replying to. Not my fault you were unclear/ambiguous.
Ok?
Reading is very good, but you can't assume everyone in a public forum has read every single post of yours and remembers every detail. What isn't helping is the lack of proper punctuation and formatting which make your posts unpleasant to read.
Replacement screens are generally OEM parts.
It might appear I'm in a hole, but that's only because I live in Holland and am below sea level. I assure you I haven't done any digging.
I wasn't suggesting to use superglue or epoxy, read it again.
I get that, and appreciate your concern. However, you should understand that some people like to try things even when the chance of success is not very high. You seem to be one of us in that regard (you attempted repairs yourself too, right?), so I don't see why it upsets you so much.
I don't care if you play nice or not. I appreciate honesty. Now for some honesty in return: you're not helping in this thread.
All you do is say people's ideas are stupid without giving arguments that aren't arguments from authority. And I would very much appreciate it if you would stop misrepresenting my posts (intentional or not).33I don't care how much experience she has, she doesn't need to be rude. Flame war threads are no help for anyone. The reason I was reading through this thread was to find some help, not to hear her insulting people for trying to find a cheap fix for a common problem.
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