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    iPhone glass replacement

    This doesn't have much do to with home improvement but I did save a lot not having to buy a new iPhone...

    My four year old child cracked the glass on my wife's iPhone on Sunday. I found some vendors on ebay that sold glass replacement kits for $11 plus some change and so I ordered one. The kit, which included some plastic tools to pry open the screen and even a little screw drive, came in a few days. I replaced the glass while watching the saints-vikings game last night. I am happy to report the iPhone and wife are very happy. Here are a few pics:

    "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
    "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
    "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
    GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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    you could have paid 1337coug $50 to fix it
    Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.

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    • #3
      Cry me a river about your broken phone Nugent.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Art Vandelay View Post
        Cry me a river about your broken phone Nugent.
        I don't think they sell $11 glass replacements for those on eBay.
        "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
        "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
        "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
        GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Ted Nugent View Post
          I don't think they sell $11 glass replacements for those on eBay.
          Don't feel bad. Art wipes with $20 bills. He bought a new range finder for the CUF golf event last week and didn't like how it worked. Rather than return it, he just left it on the course for someone else to grab.
          Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss

          There's three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who's got the same first name as a city; and never go near a lady's got a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, everything else is cream cheese. --Coach Finstock

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Donuthole View Post
            Don't feel bad. Art wipes with $20 bills. He bought a new range finder for the CUF golf event last week and didn't like how it worked. Rather than return it, he just left it on the course for someone else to grab.
            I had been meaning to ask you how it has been working for you. Nikon makes high quality optics, so I'm sure you are hitting your wedges must closer now.

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            • #7
              I've been doing this for a while now. People are to nervous to open their own phone. For a while I was doing 5-6 a week at $70 a piece.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by 1337coug View Post
                I've been doing this for a while now. People are to nervous to open their own phone. For a while I was doing 5-6 a week at $70 a piece.
                I didn't think it was too bad to do on my wife's 3G. I have heard that 2G's are a pain. If you live around here and was doing it for $50 I would have given you some business.
                "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                • #9
                  My son dropped his iPhone (it's my old phone that has been turned it into an iPod) and cracked the glass. He cried, a lot. I ordered a glass replacement kit from Amazon for $6 but I probably should have gotten the one that didn't ship from China.

                  I replaced the glass just fine, but when I turned on the phone the finger commands only worked part of the time. I broke down and took it to a local guy who fixed it up for $60. Turns out I installed everything correctly, but the glass and connections were for a 3G and not a 3GS phone.

                  At least I now know how to replace the glass and it really isn't that difficult. I'll be buying some very protective and rubbery cases for my kids phones from now on.
                  "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Anthony
                    The touch of iPhone is very sensitive part of your this phone because all the
                    touch parts is depends on your this iPhone glass....
                    I prefer we not discuss the very sensitive parts of my iPhone. TIA.
                    Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss

                    There's three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who's got the same first name as a city; and never go near a lady's got a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, everything else is cream cheese. --Coach Finstock

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                    • #11
                      Cracked the glass on my 4G several months ago and just so happened to find a Groupon for the replacement a couple of days later. Never got around to using it, despite my wife's encouragement. Then ended up dropping it again a few weeks ago, cracking the glass further. My guess is that the second drop wouldn't have been enough to crack it, had it not already been cracked, but who knows. I ended up taking it in after that and they fixed it nice and new.

                      A week after that, my 3 year old knocked it off the counter and it feel flat on its back. No cracked glass, but suddenly there was no LCD action. I assumed that the dropped had just knocked off the LCD connection. We were in Salt Lake for the holiday, so I found a place there who charged me like 10 bucks to reconnect it.

                      Ever since then, my WIFI connection has absolutely sucked. I can stand right next to my router and still not get full strength WIFI. When downstairs, I move back and forth between WIFI and 3G. And my 3G sucks in our neighborhood. I'm planning on taking it back to the people that fixed the glass and blame them.
                      I told him he was a goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper.

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