So I dropped and dinged my phone the other day. It's not bad, entirely cosmetic, and isolated to a corner of the back cover. I found the iFixit article showing how to take the back cover off to replace it.
The back cover is secured in place with an adhesive pad which needs to be warmed up and softened to remove it. Once removed, if I were to replace the back cover with a new one, do I need a new adhesive pad, or can the original still be used to hold the new cover?
My seconds question; is the accent color ring around the camera removed when removing the back cover, or is it attached to the camera mount itself?
These questions didn't seem to be addressed in the teardown, anyone know?
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GreenMunky said:
So I dropped and dinged my phone the other day. It's not bad, entirely cosmetic, and isolated to a corner of the back cover. I found the iFixit article showing how to take the back cover off to replace it.
The back cover is secured in place with an adhesive pad which needs to be warmed up and softened to remove it. Once removed, if I were to replace the back cover with a new one, do I need a new adhesive pad, or can the original still be used to hold the new cover?
My seconds question; is the accent color ring around the camera removed when removing the back cover, or is it attached to the camera mount itself?
These questions didn't seem to be addressed in the teardown, anyone know?
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The back cover does have adhesive but not much. If you can get your fingernail in the crack you should be able to work around and unsnap it. The accent ring and the camera lens are attached to the back cover. There is a thread in the accessories section with people that have bought the replacement backs and switched over the camera lens and accent.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2500086
So... Your prolly wondering just exactly what I'm doing here from the title description.
Well, I have 2 devices that I acquired through working at a repair shop,
First, the LG Optimus g e973 32gb - dead board needing JTAG repair, our shop doesn't do jtag.
So I acquired it for my personal parts collection..
Second, the LG Nexus 4 E960 8gb - busted back glass, punctured lipo cell from back glass, scratched front glass and a portion of the left most touch sensor not working, dead external speaker, rear camera lens scratched.. Possibly more..
Another parts doner
So I noticed that both devices seemed of similar layout and size and everything looked identical other then casings
Began lookup of logic board pics and parts of both devices and noticed that they are VERY similar in that they share same parts.. Both rear camera modules have identical ribbon connection and physical size, same with front cam modules and headset jacks cept the nexus 4 headset jack is slightly angled, charger ports and all.. Just casings and antennae placement and NFC/qi charge pad are different
Took both phones apart to the last piece and screw one on left other on right,
I grabbed the casing/lcd, vibration motor, cameras, headset jack, battery from the Optimus,
I grabbed the logic board, bottom speaker/rf plastic, usb/rf module, rf antenna wire, upper half of the plastic support plate that helps hold logic board in, power button, sim tray, peeled off the antennae from the nexus backplate
Assembly...
After several test fits of all the parts to check for tolerances and placements,
I started with the E973 backplate, I removed its NFC pad and all of its antennae, had to dremel off the screw mounts that keep the device together with the tobackplate, peeled off the E973 imei label and stuck it to its own logic board, took imei label off nexus plate and put into E973 backplate, several attempts later I finally get all the antennae and the NFC/qi pad installed on the backplate.. Now the backplate portion of phone is complete..
LCD and logic board mating time.
I test fitted the logic board from nexus to the LCD and touch connections and power button only of the E973, connect battery, hit power, board boots and google logo, lollipop animation, desktop, touch responds, good to go from here
So I notice a few spots that needed light dremeling to allow the slightly differently shaped nexus board to fit proper, now its seated and connected to the LCD and touch, I connect the front cam, back cam, headset modules, and do another test boot, boots again and I test the E973 camera modules on the nexus board, everything is perfect working, headset works, ambient sensors work.
Next is USB RF board placement, some more dremeling around the charger port area of the E973 casing, removed the light defuser from the E973s capacitive home button, dremeled the nexus rf antenna and speaker plate to fit proper and cover the usb section and no i did not need to touch the antenna conductor paint on the plastic
Then connected that usb rf board to logic board, did another boot and charge and led test, all success still so far
So now with all major components tested and working it was on to final assembly
Some more minor dremel work and razor trimming and soldering of volume and power buttons to logic board as they didn't match from nexus to optimus some more tolerance checks and trimming and finally case closed with a bit of bulge at bottom near USB port and near back camera.. Just a few more checks and it will be perfect
Unit boots up, everything functions, and now instead of two dead devices, I have a hybrid working Frankenstein Nexus
I'll update with a video but here is a few pics if they allow them
Awesome :good:
I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this, it's amazing you got everything to work
Wow. Nice work! Recycling at its best.
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i love my droids, if i can use it in any manner, ill try
ive gone so far as to have used a galaxy s3 with mhl video and bluetooth keyboard/mouse with no lcd panel attached and running off a 5v to 3.7 regulated circuit instead of battery, basically converted my lcd monitor into a smart lcd
ive notice that by using the optimus g's 13mp sensor module, i was creating some bulge around the rear camera area of the backplate, and the nexus 4 motherboard doesnt even tell that its the 13mp sensor, so the kernel must not be enabled for it, wonder if that could be a possible?
because i currently have the 13mp sensor in, everything operates, ill post a video when i can, but the firmware says its 8mp in camera res settings
so im gonna take it out for now, and if there is a way to enable it, ill put it back in and deal with that tiny bulge, as for the bottom bulge in the previous pics, ive figured out what caused that, and it was some extra plastic flashing and clip points that didnt match between the optimus plate and nexus rf antenna module
trimmed out the optimus plate some more and now the bulge is almost gone, but due to not having internal screw mount holes anymore i cannot secure the casing together like in stock form..
there is a before and after pic of the bottom bulge near the usb port attached here
i think that xda should take your senior member title, lock in a box, throw it in the deepest part of the ocean and award you the title of master tinkerer!!
very interesting project and glad to see it worked! must spend quiet a few hours on this Frankenstein mod! if i had your knowledge an talent i would try it to for the sake of more storage!
I did a screen repair on my 3T & while putting it back together I lost the 2 bottom screws. Anybody know how I can get 2 replacements? Or a pack of 'em? Oneplus isn't giving out any parts...
Hi there
The glass of my Nexus 6 broke 4 weeks ago and until now the screen was working well but from yesterday is completely dead (device and touch still work)
What I need to buy to fix this? (lcd panel, digitalizer, glass)
^ sorry for the crappy quality
The easiest is to buy a complete display assembly. That includes glass and amoled panel mounted together, preferably with the frame as well. Expect to pay around 70 dollars if you buy from China.
You may need new glue for the back - you can buy a cut out sheet of glue, or just a new back with glue on, it's not expensive.
My display assembly came without the speaker covers (the two tiny plastic bars). I transfered the old ones, but you can also buy them new.
I dropped my Exynos Note 9 several weeks ago in a case that wasn't very protective. Thought I dodged a bullet, but several days later I noticed a partial black "not quite half circle" on the edge of the screen, approximately 3-4 mm.
Then last week, a horizontal black line appeared across my screen, Ema aging from the black ellipse. The line only appears at certain brightness settings and will go away if I make the screen brighter.
The screen also flickers strangely sometimes when Coming out of Screensaver mode.
The glass is not cracked.
1) I need to replace... the screen?
2) how much would this cost to replace it myself?
Thanks. If I missed anything please ask.
Well, the best is to buy a new screen with frame, I am in Europe and you can find these on ebay for around 220-240€. The biggest challenge is getting the battery cover off in one piece. I did replace the screen/frame and back cover on my previous Huawei mate 20 pro, the screen/frame came with a fresh battery glued in. My only challenge was that the "original" adhesive provided with the new back cover was useless. Plenty on ebay but only 1 or 2 where the real thing, the others where not holding the back cover on. I had basically a new phone externally and is still in daily use by my wife.
For my note 10 plus I have bought a new back cover and screen/frame. It has a heavy screen burn and a hairline crack in the glass. I will take the opportunity to transform it from a Aura black into a Aura white...Like Jerry is saying, its like little lego. Plenty of you tube video's on how to!