iPhone screen repairers?

[Brookie23]

^ my phone after coming off the roof of my car at 70km/h. Does anyone repair or know someone who repairs iPhone screens? I know there are a bunch around Darwin, but they aren't well advertised.

[Knight Of Nih]

you really did a number on that one

[Brookie23]

you really did a number on that one

Yep, best smashing I've seen :/ Still works, just have to use it through a zip lock bag coz of the shards :S Contemplating $100-200 in screen repairs, or buying an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy SII?), or waiting for the iPhone 5.

[Brookie23]

Update: My sister just gave me the number of a company in the city who charge $200 for all iPhone 4 screen replacements and promise same day service and a clean of the phone to remove loose shards. I know DIY kits are like $50 on eBay, but knowing how difficult Apple make it to mess with their hardware, I'd rather leave it to people who do this stuff for a living

They call themselves 'MC Phone repairs' and the number is 89413058, if anyone is interested.

[Knight Of Nih]

good find, let us know how you go.

[Kagetsu]

Actually, I found removing the screen from my iphone 3 to be very easy, just undo those two screws at the bottom, and lift using the finger nails.

[Korny]

send back to apple $268 replacement

[Korny]

lol steve just gotta beware of those 3 lil cables underneath and connectors on board ... becomes expensive when you mess them up

[K_I_Z_A]

Use a suction cup on the screen much better. If it is shattered cover in sticky tape then use a suction cup. And an iPhone 4 is a hell of a lot harder than an iPhone 3

1 you have to go in through the back and remove almost every component before you get to the screen.

2 the screen and digitizer are pressed together and almost impossible to seperate making the part itself a lot lot more expensive.


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[Major_Kaos]

i had fun trying to pull aprt a first gen iphone, the fidley cables buggered me up. anyone on here good at cleaning the insides of iphones, i got 1 here that the top button and the large button on the front dont work very well.

[Brookie23]

Use a suction cup on the screen much better. If it is shattered cover in sticky tape then use a suction cup. And an iPhone 4 is a hell of a lot harder than an iPhone 3

1 you have to go in through the back and remove almost every component before you get to the screen.

2 the screen and digitizer are pressed together and almost impossible to seperate making the part itself a lot lot more expensive.

Yeah I watched Youtube vid on how to replace iPhone 4 screens and they literally disconnected/removed everything before they could remove the screen, so I decided I'd better leave it to someone who knows what they're doing :/ The vid was with a non-smashed screen too, so I imagine even harder with shards of glass all over the place.

Mine's being replaced as I type this; will post again when it's fixed. Major_Kaos, the place I sent my phone to do all sorts of repairs so I guess they could fix stuff like that if your phone's out of warranty. Would be cheaper than sending it to Apple, anyway.

[Brookie23]

Yeah so this is what my phone looked like Friday arvo. Friday night I discovered the camera wasn't recognised for some reason, so I took it back next business day (today) and they replaced the camera for free and had it ready just after lunch.

[K_I_Z_A]

did you get the old camera? ill bet they forgot to plug it back in :p

[Brookie23]

Nah they just gave me the phone back.

Edit: I'm not sure if they forgot to plug it in or it never worked after I smashed it, but I asked them to fix it regardless