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I've been rocking my HTC desire for about 3 years now! Love it, and it's been all sorts of special places with me - cycling in the heavy rain (bowl of rice and airing cupboard sorted that), trodden into the mud behind the bike van in Llangdegna (over the heater vent on the dashboard), and dropped countless times.
Well, today was one drop too many..... 🙁
But, a quick glance on amazon suggests that for £13.99 I can get a new digitiser and glass - yay!!!
A bit more in depth surgery than simply "warming back up again", but I'm game if the phone consents.......
Anyone replaced the screen on their desire? Instructions on the web seem straightforward enough!
DrP
Not done a desire but did my galaxy s myself. They are just like small laptops inside.
Shouldn't be much different to an iPhone. Girl at work had hers replaced three times in as many weeks 😯
Not at all clumsy...
My Mrs has a mint one on eBay, ending tomorrow if you can't be bothered with surgery! She'd probably take 40 quid, email in profile if interested.
Phil - have emailed (I'll take the phone- will fix ,y screen, but nice to have a spare!!)
DrP
I've done it. Unless you have watch screwdrivers already, you need to get a very small crosshead screwdriver and a torx t something (4 or 5), you also need some kind of adhesive to put the digitizer on with - I used special 3m phone screen tape off ebay also (was pretty cheap).
The crosshead really is small - I didn't have one and couldn't find anything in the house to bodge it with instead. Got one for a quid of ebay.
There are good picture guides on the net.
Be careful with the teeny tiny connectors for gps aerial at both ends of it when you put it back together - if you don't get them reconnected right, the gps won't work. There are also similar connectors under all the tape near the sic card and sd card, which control sim and sd and network. Try not to dislodge them when opening up. If you close it all up and can no longer connect to network, or the sd card doesn't work, then lift the tape and make sure those connectors are fixed.
Also, the tape holding the screen on takes a couple of days to reach full strength - I put a bit of sellotape over the top right corner of the phone while it was reaching full strength after a screen half falling out incident.
Overall quite easy, but a few things that can go wrong, all of which I managed to do and then fix!
Joe - don't suppose you've got any of the screen tape left do you?
eBay has it, but in Hong Kong, which can take time to arrive...
DrP
did a screen repair last year on a desire, found a you tube how to vid
bought ebay kit complete with 'screwdrivers' kit had no tape so used double sided tape and a scalpel to trim it all still working fine!. My Screaming brakes on the other hand... have a go
John