Cracked iPhone Screen options – 3G or 3GS
Posted on August 4, 2009
Cracked iPhone Screen options – 3G or 3GS
You love your iPhone. It’s full of great and easy to use features and it looks good. Then one day it slips out of your hands, hit the pavement, and as soon as you get a beautiful iPhone is an ugly crack in the glass in front. What are you doing now?
You could do anything. In most cases, the LCD (picture) below the glass is fine and the touch-screen functionality still works, so you can use it on the eve of the next version of the iPhone comes out and you feel the need to update.
If you’re like most iPhone owners, this is”no”approach is not’t much choice. You have an iPhone, because you have a style, and it doesn’t seem to no longer stylish. So how do you get it fixed? There are several options.
First of all, you can buy a new iPhone. Simply run into AT & T and Apple Store and walk out of the new iPhone. This is definitely the simplest and fastest option. It’s also the most expensive. You may have to buy the iPhone as little as $ 99, but you had to sign 2-year contract to get this price. Now that you’re under contract, they charge about $ 500 to replace the phone.
Another option is that Apple fix it for you. This option is cheaper than buying a new phone, but still one more expensive ways to repair phone. It also assumes that you are near an Apple Store. Cost of choosing this option, you cracked the display is $ 199 plus sales tax.
By far the cheapest option is to go to eBay and buy a new glass screen to about $ 20 – $ 30 and install it on the phone itself. A simple search on eBay Terms of”the iPhone touch screen”reveals a number of different companies that sell glass touch screen (3G and 3GS glass are different, so make sure you get one for your iPhone version). Then a gentle YouTube and search for”how to fix the iPhone screen,”produces a video that shows you how to make a correction.
Be warned: This correction is not negligible. It requires a heat gun to remove the existing mobile phones, broken glass, and if’re not careful, It’s not completely destroy the phone. If you choose this option, make sure you’re a nice small electronics repair, and be very careful.
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