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Hey guys
So i cracked my touch digitizer and decided to chance it myself.
I have taken some pictures of the phone disassembled.
So if anyone is curoius to see the inside of their phone, here it is...
If there is something you want a closer look of, just tell me and i will take a picture.
I haven't put it back together yet, cause i didn't know you needed some special tape to mount the digitizer...
Pretty neat. I rember taking my Nexus One apart. I got the digitizer and screen together. Didn't want to deal with the tape/glue aspect.
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Great job!
I was in the same shoe as you. Mine was a badly cracked LCD while the touch screen didn't even have a single scratch. Don't ask how I did it
Dismantling the LCD and the touch screen assembly was the toughest part. Seems like all newer and slimmer phones are using glue to fix their parts together. A nightmare for DIY.
I used normal double sided tape to put mine back together. Seems to be holding well so far. However, I am still looking around for better alternatives. Let me know if you find one!
I love my INCS!
could you make close-up pics from the bottom leds that are being used?
im actually thinking of replacing them for blue or orange
Was it hard to do because I have some dust under my screen and maybe give it a try.
How did you manage to crack the gorilla glass??
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Yeah, i'm gonna try to replace my digitizer as well, i'm kinda scared to pull the screen & digitizer apart... I've read that you can heat it up using a hairdryer and that the glue will get loose, but i'm not sure if i have the guts to heat my screen up
So how did you manage to get the screen off?
Don't think it is worth the effort and risk to just get rid of a few dust particles.
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Guys, using a hairdryer f***s the phone up. You don' need lot of time to overheat any metal parts and circuits and stuff break...
You think it isnt that hot, but works the same way like when u are in the sauna and your necklace burns your neck when it hangs apart from your body for a couple of seconds.
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Hawkysoft said:
could you make close-up pics from the bottom leds that are being used?
im actually thinking of replacing them for blue or orange
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I'm afraid i cant to that. I'm afraid of braking it when removing the tape wich is on it. The button "display" is 0,5 mm thick or so. Im not even sure it is possible to replace them.
Neolight78 said:
Was it hard to do because I have some dust under my screen and maybe give it a try.
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Dont do it just to remove some dust. Not worth the risk. Its not that easy to take it off.
RicarduZonta said:
How did you manage to crack the gorilla glass??
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6 feet drop on concrete floor with the corner first. Even Gorilla glas cant survive that
VaalNL said:
So how did you manage to get the screen off?
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After removing everything on the back i was able to push at the back of the screen in the top of the phone, and then get a little plastick tool in and pulled it of.
Its quite hard to pull off but the glass was already cracked so i just pulled a bit hard.
I was a little bit more carefull with the LCD. Its also quite hard to remove. Just took my chances and hoped the glue would give in before the LCD craced
Cool story bro, I always wanted to know what's inside!
Can you post a high res picture of just the mother board particularly the NAND flash of possible
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I'm also looking for what I need to re attach the digitizer. Any ideas
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What did you use to glue the digitizer back on? I broke mine and waiting for new digitizer and housing to come in. But i have no idea what is used to glue it back on. Also wondering if the digitizer gets glued back onto the lcd or onto the housing or both? Thanks guys!
hosecastro said:
What did you use to glue the digitizer back on? I broke mine and waiting for new digitizer and housing to come in. But i have no idea what is used to glue it back on. Also wondering if the digitizer gets glued back onto the lcd or onto the housing or both? Thanks guys!
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Hey
I answered in the other thread
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My Touchscreen started having an iris-colored liquid inside and, as I don't want to buy a new phone yet, I'd like to exchange the screen. I already found a trustworthy website selling the appropriate screens, but no instructions on how to exchange the screen. I do have a slight idea, but I'd like to be sure.
Thanks for any help, Malitai.
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I have one link that helps you, but couldn't post it.
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Malitai said:
My Touchscreen started having an iris-colored liquid inside and, as I don't want to buy a new phone yet, I'd like to exchange the screen. I already found a trustworthy website selling the appropriate screens, but no instructions on how to exchange the screen. I do have a slight idea, but I'd like to be sure.
Thanks for any help, Malitai.
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if you mean to replace the display screen or digitizer, there is a guide to disassemble everything. Please see this.
It's pretty easy if you use the guide - just be careful lifting the latch on the digitiser connection if you're replacing this as well - I didn't and borked my phone! As such I've got a new screen and digitiser and no use for them.
laughingcavalier said:
It's pretty easy if you use the guide - just be careful lifting the latch on the digitiser connection if you're replacing this as well - I didn't and borked my phone! As such I've got a new screen and digitiser and no use for them.
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Very sorry about it! I also tried in wrong way to lift the latch, it is very tricky, but luckily I did not break it. Now I am confident and I had disassembled everything 2-3 times to fix a screen problem.
same problem
i have the same problem, can it be repaired or I have to replace the screen
Problem solved
I found this solution and it worked. now is like new
I have some kind of bad scratches on my screen, I was just wondering if I choose to replace it will I need to swap the digitizer, screen or front case?
Its not causing many problems yet, but in the sun they show up really bad and make things under the scratches kind of hard to see.
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I have some kind of bad scratches on my screen, I was just wondering if I choose to replace it will I need to swap the digitizer, screen or front case?
Its not causing many problems yet, but in the sun they show up really bad and make things under the scratches kind of hard to see.
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The Actual front of the screen is actually the digitizer so thats what you would have to replace, the font case dosent have a clear part its the digitizer
and believe it or not thats probably the cheapest part of all 3 to replace
and if you choose to replace it you can use this guide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaAe0xWdkzI
ZxWelshyxz said:
The Actual front of the screen is actually the digitizer so thats what you would have to replace, the font case dosent have a clear part its the digitizer
and believe it or not thats probably the cheapest part of all 3 to replace
and if you choose to replace it you can use this guide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaAe0xWdkzI
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Thought so, but thought I should ask anyway, seen some on ebay for £5 or less, might give it a go sometime, thanks for the youtube link as well i'll use it if I do replace it
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Thought so, but thought I should ask anyway, seen some on ebay for £5 or less, might give it a go sometime, thanks for the youtube link as well i'll use it if I do replace it
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Np, i only know about the youtube video as i replaced my Digitizer a few months back was a great help to me.
Plus, the person who made it is a member here on xda if i remember
Just watched the video is a hairdryer/heatgun needed to.soften the glue that holds every thing in? Only thing I don't have lol
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Hello, I also have scratch on the screen, but they're not scratch "lines": in the center, where I touch most of the times, I have some kind of spots, like the screen had worn in that point because is the most touched. Anyone with this problem? What it could be?
Thanks!
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Hello, I also have scratch on the screen, but they're not scratch "lines": in the center, where I touch most of the times, I have some kind of spots, like the screen had worn in that point because is the most touched. Anyone with this problem? What it could be?
Thanks!
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Check if there's any protection cover on the screen. In case there's no cover and you see the touchscreen was damaged, try to replace it. Someone already have posted youtube link to tutorial. For instance, you can buy a new touchscreen on ebay (i can't post the link)
Hi fellas,
I'm in dilemma of whether to have a go at changing my One's housing myself or go to a local repair shop and change it for $60? $60 is the price if I have the parts.
Strictly cosmetic reasons
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They are a bit of a ***** if you haven't done it before. For 60 bucks I'd get it done by an expert
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Thug_4_Life said:
Hi fellas,
I'm in dilemma of whether to have a go at changing my One's housing myself or go to a local repair shop and change it for $60? $60 is the price if I have the parts.
Strictly cosmetic reasons
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Has your phone ever been repaired by HTC before? I've done a housing swap, and it's not difficult at all, if done slowly and carefully
n1234d said:
Has your phone ever been repaired by HTC before? I've done a housing swap, and it's not difficult at all, if done slowly and carefully
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Awesome! Can you please tell me all the tools I need beside housing and similar tray?
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Thug_4_Life said:
Awesome! Can you please tell me all the tools I need beside housing and similar tray?
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Firstly and most importantly, has your phone ever been opened by htc? For pink tint etc?
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Firstly and most importantly, has your phone ever been opened by htc? For pink tint etc?
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Yes, is there a significant difference?
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Thug_4_Life said:
Yes, is there a significant difference?
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Yes, it makes your job significantly easier . Now, what's the purpose of the housing change? Do you want to change front + back, or only back? Only back is much, much easier.
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Yes, it makes your job significantly easier . Now, what's the purpose of the housing change? Do you want to change front + back, or only back? Only back is much, much easier.
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Looks. Front and back, but I don't have any tools. Do I have to buy the LCD digitizer as well?
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Thug_4_Life said:
Looks. Front and back, but I don't have any tools. Do I have to buy the LCD digitizer as well?
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Nope, you don't need an LCD and digitiser assembly unless you damage your current one. You have 3 options:
1. Replace the back only (safest procedure, absolutely 0% risk of damaging components.. This is what I'd strongly recommend you to do)
2. Replace back + front speaker grilles (again, low risk method, involves the above and prying off your current grilles and replacing them with new ones, without a full disassembly)
3. Replace complete housing. This involves by far the most risk you can ever take on your phone. You can break any of the tiny flex cables/connectors, LCD, and kill other parts of the phone.
I have tried all the steps in order, and I must say, just a word of caution, it really isn't worth the mess that can be made of it.
I was happy with the 1st method (putting a black back on my silver One, but when I saw the original black one, I really wanted my speakers to be black too.. So I did the second method, and in the process, although I was extremely careful, I poked a dent in the bottom speaker, which makes it crackle. I fixed it with tape, but it'll never sound as good as it was.. Then, there were also huge gaps on the top and bottom, between the grilles and the back, which was because I hadn't managed to get all the adhesive off. In short, to any other person, it was a perfect phone, but by now, my OCD was killing me.. So I did a full disassembly. Everything went perfect, except the screen. Now I have a One with a crackly bottom speaker and two small spots on my LCD
Now that you know what can happen (even after being extremely slow and cautious), what method do you plan to follow? Btw, are you gonna be changing colors??
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Nope, you don't need an LCD and digitiser assembly unless you damage your current one. You have 3 options:
1. Replace the back only (safest procedure, absolutely 0% risk of damaging components.. This is what I'd strongly recommend you to do)
2. Replace back + front speaker grilles (again, low risk method, involves the above and prying off your current grilles and replacing them with new ones, without a full disassembly)
3. Replace complete housing. This involves by far the most risk you can ever take on your phone. You can break any of the tiny flex cables/connectors, LCD, and kill other parts of the phone.
I have tried all the steps in order, and I must say, just a word of caution, it really isn't worth the mess that can be made of it.
I was happy with the 1st method (putting a black back on my silver One, but when I saw the original black one, I really wanted my speakers to be black too.. So I did the second method, and in the process, although I was extremely careful, I poked a dent in the bottom speaker, which makes it crackle. I fixed it with tape, but it'll never sound as good as it was.. Then, there were also huge gaps on the top and bottom, between the grilles and the back, which was because I hadn't managed to get all the adhesive off. In short, to any other person, it was a perfect phone, but by now, my OCD was killing me.. So I did a full disassembly. Everything went perfect, except the screen. Now I have a One with a crackly bottom speaker and two small spots on my LCD
Now that you know what can happen (even after being extremely slow and cautious), what method do you plan to follow? Btw, are you gonna be changing colors??
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Silver to black I'm still in dilemma haha!
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Silver to black I'm still in dilemma haha!
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Nice! Even I did a silver to black conversion. So, which method do you want to go through with? Depending on that I'll give you instructions on what to do. Method 3 is gonna look the neatest of all, 2 will be good if you manage to take off every single last bit of glue, and method 1 will give you a cool 2-tone look.
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Nice! Even I did a silver to black conversion. So, which method do you want to go through with? Depending on that I'll give you instructions on what to do. Method 3 is gonna look the neatest of all, 2 will be good if you manage to take off every single last bit of glue, and method 1 will give you a cool 2-tone look.
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Method 3
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Method 3
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Okay, let's begin!
Stuff you'll need:
1x HTC One M7 Full housing (front + back), search on ebay.. Like this
Black sim tray (ebay)
A very small sized phillips screwdriver, and tweezers (or rather get a whole kit of that mini sized stuff )
Something like 5mm double sided sticky tape
Glue that melts on heating (not sure what exactly it is called), or superglue. I'd reommend the heat one though.
A hair dryer/heat gun
Old credit cards/guitar picks etc
A razor blade
If you think that you're gonna break your display anywhere along the process, even those are available on ebay for a decent amount.
Now, I watched these videos for reference:
Disassembly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZFAsgjCunc
Reassembly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5KNmDeJ4Ww
Since your phone has been opened before, it's not gonna be as difficult as it looks in the video. What I did was pull out the volume button with my nail (the top of the button, in the middle), and once that is out, just inserted a card into the gap inside and pryed at the back, and eventually, it got off. Remove your sim tray before you start. Also, see the positions of the clips holding the housing, it'll make removing it much easier. For taking off the display, I'd say, use heat for a decent minute and half, or two, and use a suction cup. This is the only part which isn't made clear on any youtube video that I've seen, so be careful. You could also get your technician to just transplant the display to the new housing.
Any way, ask away if you have any questions, and good luck!
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Method 3
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Progress?
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Progress?
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Do I need any adhesives? If so, which one of1, 2, or 3mm would work the best?
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Thug_4_Life said:
Do I need any adhesives? If so, which one of1, 2, or 3mm would work the best?
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mm in width? 3 would be ok, you'll need two or three strips to hold the battery down.
Hello,
does anbody know how to remove the bezel of the LGR? It seems to bei mounted on the housing.
cheers
Manfred
Lt.Spock said:
Hello,
does anbody know how to remove the bezel of the LGR? It seems to bei mounted on the housing.
cheers
Manfred
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It is there to shield the display connectors. The best I think you could manage to do is file it down to just above the sensor.
I d like change bezel. I damaged it
daigoro76 said:
I d like change bezel. I damaged it
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You might want to send LG a note and request that for the LG G Watch R v2 .
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Hello,
does anbody know how to remove the bezel of the LGR? It seems to bei mounted on the housing.
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Manfred
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Removing that bezel is not possible - the bezel, chassis, digitizer glass, and display panel form a single unit that cannot be disassembled without being destroyed.
The bezel is precision press-fitted into the solid metal chassis using a teflon compression washer. (The bezel has a lip that fits inside the opening of the chassis, and the teflon washer goes onto that lip. The two pieces are then compression-fitted in a precision press.) The bezel also acts the frame for the digitizer glass, and the display (which is actually a flexible sheet) is bonded to the digitizer glass using a transparent adhesive.
Thank you for the detailed answer!
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Manfred
I'm still waiting for someone to do a full teardown of the "R". It will be interesting viewing.
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Darnell_Chat_TN said:
I'm still waiting for someone to do a full teardown of the "R". It will be interesting viewing.
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I took mine completely apart in about 5 minutes, it's very easy. You can very easily replace the battery, motherboard, and side button tact switch. Replacing the display on its own, however, is not possible - you must get a whole chassis+display assembly as removing the display from the assembly will destroy it.
siraltus said:
I took mine completely apart in about 5 minutes, it's very easy. You can very easily replace the battery, motherboard, and side button tact switch. Replacing the display on its own, however, is not possible - you must get a whole chassis+display assembly as removing the display from the assembly will destroy it.
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And with that. You know we want pics and if possible, video too [emoji5]
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siraltus said:
I took mine completely apart in about 5 minutes, it's very easy. You can very easily replace the battery, motherboard, and side button tact switch. Replacing the display on its own, however, is not possible - you must get a whole chassis+display assembly as removing the display from the assembly will destroy it.
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you mean you have dissemble your g watch R?...mine to video the whole process?
Theres a video on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFoKETw8NI8
jesusfranco said:
Theres a video on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFoKETw8NI8
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Tear down video, my favorite [emoji2] .
I wish they would have shown taking the battery out and putting it back in. But it looks like we may have an easy time replacing the battery.
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Anyway it is pretty impressive to see that it can be dismounted in less than 1 minute...
What about the waterproofness once it has been opened ??
Aerandir14 said:
What about the waterproofness once it has been opened ??
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Once put back together, it is as before ever opened.