The corner of my glass has started coming up from the rest of the phone. It looks like some kind of foam glue used to hold it together. The phone is perfect otherwise. Is there any way to repair this other than buying a new screen and digitizer assembly? I can attach a picture if this description is not clear.
I also would rather not remove the glass from the LCD as this looks difficult and risky.
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It turns out you can remove the entire screen assembly from it's metal and plastic frame with a little heat and a thin plastic prying tool (I used a guitar pick). I tried LCD tape but it was not strong enough. I ended up using loctite plastic bonder and it seems to be holding strong. I just hope it lasts long enough so a new phone comes out which can adequately replace my Turbo.
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So I have a case from TPU-cases.com and love it but have decided I'm tired of how hard it is to press the power button. Anyone have any suggestions how to cut out a hole for it? Do you think this would make it easier or more difficult to press the button?
I just tinkered with a sharp knife and this case is really, really tough...
I don't have one of these cases but you might try to sand out the inside using a dremel at low speeds or carve out the inside of the button area with something else. Hope you didn't take the knife to the outside of the case. That'll look tacky. Ideally you want to make the button softer.
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I had to remove a bit of excess plastic around the microusb port on my N1's TPU case, as well as some extra around the flash on the camera (it was giving all my flash photos a blue tint). I used an X-acto knife and was INCREDIBLY careful. It worked, although it wasn't PERFECT.
use a hole puncher, or simply use scissor if you don't mind minor imperfections
Exacto knife.
Power button and volume rocker sucked when I first got the case. However, i flashed something wrong a few days ago and had to do a battery pull. Putting the vase on a second time lined everything up better somehow (these cases are a little too tight) and the power button is much much easier to press. On a side note, I'm really hesitant about taking on and off this particular case. The edges are a little too stiff and sharp for my taste and I'm afraid it will eventually scratch or Mar the plastic bezel taking it on and off. Other than that its a great case. I am using the gloss black one but I also have the smoke argyle case from the same company (tpucases.com) and the smoke has a rough spot on one of the edges and didn't fit or line up as well as the black one. Leads me to believe some of these will give you an easier time pressing the buttons than others. Sanding the button cutouts to make them thinner and easier to press does seem like a great idea though.
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Power button and volume rocker sucked when I first got the case. However, i flashed something wrong a few days ago and had to do a battery pull. Putting the vase on a second time lined everything up better somehow (these cases are a little too tight) and the power button is much much easier to press. On a side note, I'm really hesitant about taking on and off this particular case. The edges are a little too stiff and sharp for my taste and I'm afraid it will eventually scratch or Mar the plastic bezel taking it on and off. Other than that its a great case. I am using the gloss black one but I also have the smoke argyle case from the same company (tpucases.com) and the smoke has a rough spot on one of the edges and didn't fit or line up as well as the black one. Leads me to believe some of these will give you an easier time pressing the buttons than others. Sanding the button cutouts to make them thinner and easier to press does seem like a great idea though.
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I was trying to figure out what edge you are talking about that is sharp and now that I'm holding the case in my hand i see it, its the inside edge of the case. You can only feel it when its off the phone. I would be extremely surprised if you could scratch the bezel with TPU. I've never had any customer tell me they have done so at least, and I never have on any of my phones.
As for the power button stiffness, we have now addressed this on all future models. We finally went to a cutout design. Of course now that we have done so I've already received 2 reports of people saying they liked the molded design better. I guess you cant please everyone! Still using a molded volume rocker, but the TPU is thinned out a bit more on the newer models so it should be easy to press. If your using one of our older cases a nice trick is putting some clear tape on the inside of the case where the molded buttons are to fill in the gap. Works very well on some models. I've cut TPU cases with xacto knives before and I would recommend it, it always ends up looking like crap. If your more skilled with a blade then me maybe you could do better.
I know this thread is dated, but I did a search and it lead me here. I need to cut out a hole in the edge for the infrared blaster for my samsung galaxy tab sch-I815 7.7. As you may or may may not know that it's difficult to find a good selection of tpu cases for this device. Would a hot knife eg. Exacto blade mounted in a variable temp soldering iron, small dremel grindng bit or a leather hole puncher work better? At what temperature will the tpu material melt and not burn?
If you're nifty with a sharp knife or paper cutter. This might be for you.. Depending on how hard or soft the TPU case is, I use to slice CAREFULLY the top and bottom part of the button tab impressions of the case, without slicing everything off. Thus loosen it up a bit, and give it a little more flexibility. Which leaves me with the buttons still protected, and also not get bugged thinking an overly tight case might break the button itself with the constant pressure all the time. It works for me. It could probably work for you too.
Note: Just slice the top and bottom part. Imagine the button impression as a rectangle. You just slice the longer sides of the rectangle part, leave the shorter sides alone..
What I did was remove the nexus s back cover and the buttons pressed just fine I have a tpu case and don't really need nfc
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Thank you for all of your suggestions.
Ok, so I've managed to gather a few good quality scratches on my screen, and I've got a replacement new digitizer ready to go, with the necessary pry tools, screwdrivers etc.
One question though. The new digitizer has a pre-applied adhesive. Do I need any double sided adhesive tape as well? Seen a reference to 1mm double sided adhesive on an Amazon ad, but not entirely convinced it's needed.
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I can now answer my own question.
No, I didn't need the 1mm wide double sided adhesive. In fact, the whole process was remarkably easy. New digitizer is fitted, and fully functional. Very happy, my tab is beautiful again.
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Congrats on a successful repair.
Care to share where you bought the new part off of?
Just so people, myself included, know where to look for the thing if they ever need it.
New digitizer was bought from ebay. Its a perfect replacement, brand new, but I suspect not official as I noticed the identification lettering on the ribbon cable is different. Could be OEM though.
The whole process was pretty simple. Used a tool like a heavy guitar pick to pry the back case off the chassis, with a suction cup to pull the chassis away from the back case. Check the teardown on techreplubic for more on that.
I used my wifes hair drier to soften the adhesive holding the digitizer on the chassis, then used the same guitar pick tool to break into the adhesive seal, and worked my way round slowly, before finally peeling the digitizer away.
Then just cleaned off any residual adhesive (there was barely any left, it all stayed on the old digitizer). Peeled the protective films off the back of the new digitizer, lined it up, and stuck it down.
Trickiest thing is making sure you're in a pretty dust free area so you don't get any specks on the LCD before sticking the new glass down. And be careful pulling up the brown retainer bar on the ribbon termination, you need to release that before disconnecting the ribbon cable, and then flick it back into place once the new ribbon cable termination is slotted in.
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Hello. Some time ago, I broke my digitizer and had to replace it. I ordered just the plain digitizer, removed the old one from the frame and put the new one on. The guides recommended to use double sided tape, but I used glue instead. Now, I've already had to open the device once to clean the dust. When I changed the digitizer, there were 2 small particles of dust accidentally left under the screen, and over time there were eventually 100s of particles. 2 days ago I cleaned the digitizer and LCD of dust and again, accidentally left a small particle of dust under the screen, but it didn't really bother me. Now I am already seeing 10s of dust particles under the screen. Where is it all coming from? Could it be because I used glue in the first place to put the glass to the digitizer instead of tape?
Oh, and I'll mention that with the original digitizer+frame there were no dust problems
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When i change my digitizer to me i didnt found so much dust.(and i was using the phone for 1,5 year.
I didn't have any dust problems with original digitizer either, but when I installed a new one and used glue to put the glass to the frame (the original used double-sided tape) I started getting dust problems.
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I didn't have any dust problems with original digitizer either, but when I installed a new one and used glue to put the glass to the frame (the original used double-sided tape) I started getting dust problems.
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Well, I've never replaced this phone digitizer. But I've done it with other phones, and some ipods. From my experience, I think you have the answer: using glue instead of double-sided tape creates some little holes as the glue dries and (hope to made myself understandable) "compresses" itself leaving some empty spaces "behind". ¿Do you have any possibility to clean glue and reinstall with double sided tape?
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Well, I've never replaced this phone digitizer. But I've done it with other phones, and some ipods. From my experience, I think you have the answer: using glue instead of double-sided tape creates some little holes as the glue dries and (hope to made myself understandable) "compresses" itself leaving some empty spaces "behind". ¿Do you have any possibility to clean glue and reinstall with double sided tape?
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I'll probably order a new digitizer, the one I have has scratches. I am not sure if I should order digitizer+frame and attach it myself using double sided tape or order a frame with the digitizer already attatched? The plus side to ordering a ready one is that it'll save me a few hours of work, but maybe they used glue to attach glass to the frame?
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I am not sure if I should order digitizer+frame and attach it myself using double sided tape or order a frame with the digitizer already attatched? [...] maybe they used glue to attach glass to the frame?
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I would trust that if they sold it attached, it should be by the "official" way. And as I understand, that is with double-sided tape. But of course, I can't be sure.
I changed mine a couple of weeks ago and have the same problem. I used double sided tape but I cut it myself in small fragments and might not have been that accurate and might have left gaps between the fragments. Don't really remember what it looks like from inside but could the hole for the phone speaker allow dust to get in from above? Really have to open it up and seal it better...
I'm looking for a metal based case so that I can use my Mountek magnetic holder.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MNXAFQ6/ref=s9_hps_bw_g107_i4
I can stick a piece of metal on the back but it looks unsightly.
Thanks.
would any of these work?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brushed-M...lePhonesCasesPouches&var=&hash=item540b7c305f
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ultra-thi...lePhonesCasesPouches&var=&hash=item19f56ab90d
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ALU-COVER..._MobilePhonesCasesPouches&hash=item540bb0d7ca
Pretty sure aluminium is non-magnetic
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Just get some thin magnets from your fridge, stick them on your phone and you're good to go
Are you using a case now? I had a spigen, I put the little metal attachment it came with between the hard part and the silicone. Had to bend it and cut down at the silicone a bit but it worked perfect. Only thing is since the phone is curved you need something with a high friction constant on the magnet part.
Thank you all for your replies.
Lost the phone and just got a replacement. I'm thinking of opening up the phone to place the metal plate inside on the battery.
The only issue is the speaker grills keeping their shape afterwards.
bluegrass55 said:
Thank you all for your replies.
Lost the phone and just got a replacement. I'm thinking of opening up the phone to place the metal plate inside on the battery.
The only issue is the speaker grills keeping their shape afterwards.
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When you open it up, what you find on the bottom is not the battery, it's the motherboard in the center and two daughterboards top and bottom. The battery is in the middle, below the circuit boards, right behind the display. And there's almost ZERO free space inside that case. Even with a very thin strip of metal, you won't be able to close it properly.
Your best bet is getting one of the slim "barely there" style cases and stick a thin metal plate on the inside of that. TPU cases would work well for that too, maybe even better since there's a bit more flex.
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When you open it up, what you find on the bottom is not the battery, it's the motherboard in the center and two daughterboards top and bottom. The battery is in the middle, below the circuit boards, right behind the display. And there's almost ZERO free space inside that case. Even with a very thin strip of metal, you won't be able to close it properly.
Your best bet is getting one of the slim "barely there" style cases and stick a thin metal plate on the inside of that. TPU cases would work well for that too, maybe even better since there's a bit more flex.
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Removed the back cover and stuck my metal plate in the middle and the back cover closed as before. You have to be careful where you place the metal plate so that the back cover closes properly.
Disassembly was quiet straight forward.
I'm having this issue too. Has anyone tried bending the metal plate to match the phone? Does it affect the strength of the magnet ?
I'm thinking getting one of the hybrid case (seems to be flatter) to use with the mount.
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I'm having this issue too. Has anyone tried bending the metal plate to match the phone? Does it affect the strength of the magnet ?
I'm thinking getting one of the hybrid case (seems to be flatter) to use with the mount.
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You don't need to bend the metal plate. Just place it exactly in the center. the metal doesn't need to be too big. Mine is Length 6cm Width 2.5cm.
Using a case is easier but I like to use the phone without a case. If ever it gets damaged or time to sell I can replace the housing.
This things expensive for a skin at about $70. Now that that's outta the way it's very high quality. Everything lines up perfectly with very little room for error. The wood finish looks like fine furniture and feels great in the hand. The custom art looks very close to the rendering I approved.
I installed front skin on top of a Zagg HD Dry but I trimmed it back to just above and below the top and bottom of the display. This gave the skin more bare glass to stick to at the top and bottom. Since the skin is almost as thick as a credit card you cannot see a line from the depth difference from trimmed screen protector. Another bonus for the front skin is it fits so close to the back skin it completely hides any light bleed around the edge display.
Installation is pretty straight forward using the usb cable as a guide for rear placement. After the back is positioned you just roll the 4 sides then the 4 corners on a table or flat surface followed by the front skin. The adhesive is very sticky and will not pull off after placement to reposition like a vinyl skin, So you have to be very cautious with your alignment. Edges of skin will pick up lint for a day from a little exposed adhesive.
You can get them here toastmade.com
Sorry about the pics being upside down I rotated them every way and they still uploaded like that
+1 for Toast... holy crap I never want another case again... I've never been prone to dropping my phone so it's really all I need to not have scratches..
Installation was nowhere near as hard as some people make it sound... I did it 1st try with no issues whatsoever.
My ONLY two complains are button sensitivity.. kinda mushy (could be my own fault) and the case sometimes for no reason (IN A VERY MINUSCULE WAY) chips on the sides.. pics posted..
Having said that... it's still the ONLY case/skin I'll ever use. And never have to worry which screen protector I'll use!
Toastmade is the bomb will never own a case again
So if I get this I wont be able to install a screen protector right? Will this skin prevent a damage in case your phone drop like pocket height on a cement?
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I use mine with a zagg HD dry under front skin
I don't get it myself. I just don't see the attraction of covering up the aesthetically pleasing Samsung hardware. Especially with wood! But I guess if it floats your boat, who am I to argue!
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Toasted for a while
I was got the carved and while I like the carved inlay of the NYC skyline, the case was too smooshy and made the phone feel "cheapish" so I opted to get a customized toasted skin. I have to say it's pretty awesome. I normally use cases, but this looks to good to put a case over it, even if you can. I haven't tried.