Samsung Fascinate Touch Screen Digitizer and LCD Screen Repair Guide

repairsuniverse

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Does your outer touchscreen have been damaged or cracked? Having problem with the display? This is the step-by-step guide to install the Samsung Fascinate LCD and touch screen digitizer. An easy to follow guide to completely disassemble your Fascinate and replace the LCD and touch screen.

This guide will help you to install the following Samsung Fascinate part(s):
  • Samsung Fascinate LCD and Touch Screen Replacement part

Tools Required:
  • Safe open pry tool
  • Small Phillips

Samsung Fascinate LCD and touch screen digitizer repair guide:
  • First is to remove the back cover from the phone then remove the battery and the memory card.
  • Then use Small Phillips Screwdriver to remove the 6 Phillips screw as shown at the figure 1.


Figure 1​
  • Using safe pry tool, gently pry of all the side of the phone to remove the back bezzel from the phone.
  • Next, use safe pry tool to release the screen ribbon from the motherboard as shown at figure 2.


Figure 2​
  • Using a safe open pry tool, carefully pry up the front glass screen from the unit. Note that the glass screen will be adhered to the unit all along the sides with an adhesive material and you may have to use a hot air gun / hair-dryer before prying up the front glass screen.
  • Once the screen is ease off from the screen, you can now pry off the buttons at the bottom of the screen. Gently pry it off as it is held with a little adhesive to avoid from being damaged.


    Figure 3​
  • The Fascinate is now disassembled and you can replace the damaged part(s) with new ones.

Reverse the instructions above to reassemble your phone.
 

Sheetzie03

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Hello there


I was just about to make a thread and I seen this.

OK well here is the quick story.

I basically found this phone In a parking lot with the main part of the phone, the back cover(with the plastic protective film from when you first buy it on there), and the battery seperated from each other a few feet apart.
After some quick looking I found I was a fascinate sch-i500, and it seems as if it was a brand new phone before this damage was done to the screen...kinda weird it would be. As you can see, the screen is cracked/ damaged pretty good BUT what I also quickly noticed was that it seems certain things are functioning. The on screen capacitive buttons light up and the phone vibrates. While I obv can't see, the phone is responding to my touches from certain sounds I'm hearing.

In trying to get this phone back to life, I would like to try to spend as less as possible. Now I have never replaced a phones LCD before so I can say I don't quite understand it all.

What I dont understanding is how can the touch screen be cracked as bad as it, yet it still seems to be functioning as it should?

This digitizer that you guys refer to, is this a must in this replacement or can I just replace the cracked screen. Id like this project to cost me as least as possible

Like I said I'm glad I came across this thread before I made my own thread. I hope you guys can help me out.

Thank you to the op and the xda community.

(Edit-sorry for xtra space taken up)










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repairsuniverse

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Aug 11, 2010
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Hello there


I was just about to make a thread and I seen this.

OK well here is the quick story.

I basically found this phone In a parking lot with the main part of the phone, the back cover(with the plastic protective film from when you first buy it on there), and the battery seperated from each other a few feet apart.
After some quick looking I found I was a fascinate sch-i500, and it seems as if it was a brand new phone before this damage was done to the screen...kinda weird it would be. As you can see, the screen is cracked/ damaged pretty good BUT what I also quickly noticed was that it seems certain things are functioning. The on screen capacitive buttons light up and the phone vibrates. While I obv can't see, the phone is responding to my touches from certain sounds I'm hearing.

In trying to get this phone back to life, I would like to try to spend as less as possible. Now I have never replaced a phones LCD before so I can say I don't quite understand it all.

What I dont understanding is how can the touch screen be cracked as bad as it, yet it still seems to be functioning as it should?

This digitizer that you guys refer to, is this a must in this replacement or can I just replace the cracked screen. Id like this project to cost me as least as possible

Like I said I'm glad I came across this thread before I made my own thread. I hope you guys can help me out.

Thank you to the op and the xda community.

(Edit-sorry for xtra space taken up)

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
On this model the LCD and the glass touch screen digitizer are fused together. To fix the phone you will need the screen replacement. You can find this screen here - Samsung Fascinate Screen Replacement

Simply swap the screens over and your phone will be like new again.
 

Sheetzie03

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Hey your reply is very much appreciated.

I see that the price is. 109. I did some searching. I can get a used fascinate for half that price. Lol So you can see why I wouldn't want to spend 109.



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