All right, three tips on replacing the shattered glass on your new Samsung phone. Works from
the Galaxy S3 and on, all the way through the Nexuses, the Notes, all that good stuff.
This video is just about tips, so if you want to see the full complete restoration of the
phone, click in the bottom left hand corner and that will take you to a full video. Right
now I am separating the glass from the buttons on the phone so so the buttons stay with the
phone itself. You don't need to open up the phone to replace the screen on it. Right now
I'm just peeling off the glass because the glass is just a solid piece of glass. There's
no wires coming out of it or anything. So I've got the buttons separated, and I've gotten
the glass pieces coming out. And you'll see in a second why I call this mistake the teeter-totter
effect, for lack of a better scientific term. You can see as I lift up on one corner of
the glass the other side of the glass is pressed into the digitizer underneath. And crack.
The pressure cracks the digitizer underneath and it doesn't take very much pressure at
all so you have to be really careful as you lift up to not put any pressure on the screen
underneath the phone. It cracks the digitizer over the LED, and once it is cracked there
is no fixing it. You have to replace the screen as a unit. Mistake Number 2: Not enough heat.
So you can see I had my blow-dryer, I was going on this phone and I was kind of melting
the glue between the glass and the digitizer. You want to get it to a point where the glue
is liquid enough that the glass kind of peels away by itself. Here you can see I"m kind
of struggling with it. The glass isn't wanting to separate from the phone. So I'm heating
it up again with a blowdryer which just never really gets hot enough. Some blow dryers might.
Mine did not. If all you need is the glass for your phone you can usually find them on
Amazon for less than ten bucks. I will list them in the video description below. You can
just click on the link and it'll take you right to Amazon. This video is all about the
common and very costly mistakes that people can make when swapping out your own screens,
and how to avoid them. This saves you a lot of money and everyone is happy. And you subscribe
to my YouTube channel. But really. You should click the subscribe button below. Right here
you can see that the glue is actually super stressed. You can see all the crack lines
in it. It's just because it's not getting hot enough still. I'm kind of forcing it apart
from the screen underneath. And it's not happy about it. So right here I"m going to come
up from the other corner and the digitizer is so stuck to the glass above it that it
just starts cracking apart. And once it starts cracking like I said before there is no saving
it. It is completely destroyed and you just have to replace the whole screen as a unit.
And I have videos for all of these Samsung phones and how to replace these screens as
a unit, so just kind of search through my other videos if you end up destroying your
screen. This is usually just a cheaper alternative for the people who don't want to spend a whole
lot of money. The screens for these phones are about ten bucks just for the glass part.
Anyway, once I realized it was broken I just ripped off the whole screen. This kills the
phone. All right, mistake number 3: too much heat. So I got a new heat gun, and I started
off way too close to the screen. It heated up way too fast. So you want the screen to
be at the point where you can barely touch it with your hand, where you wouldn't want
to rest your finger on the screen. And that gets the glue to the right temperature where
it will separate from the glass. So here you can see through the crack in the screen that
it's heated up so much that it's actually started to discolor the LED underneath the
glass. At this point I realized that I had messed up but I decided to keep going on anyway.
So you can see that the screen is super hot at the moment and as I kind of peel it up
from the phone, it's super--the glue is super liquid underneath. It just slides away and
the glass is actually really easy to just pry up and away from the phone. Right now
I'm also pulling it up at an angle to avoid that teeter-totter effect, so I'm not putting
any pressure on the digitizer underneath the glass. Same thing with this. You can see the
glue separating from the digitizer and the glass itself. You want to find a happy medium,
you know, between this and mistake number two. You don't want to see those stress fractures
in the glue. But you also don't want to damage your LED either. It's a fairly expensive mistake.
Now I have the new piece of glass on top of the phone and I am just running the heat over
it really quick just to make sure that the double sided sticky tape that I have underneath
kind of melts again to the glass and holds it a little stronger than it would normally.
I have that same screen attached to my test phone and you can see the burn mark right
there in the LED, there's no fixing it. If you want to see how a screen swap is done
correctly go ahead and click in the bottom left hand corner and that will take you straight
to the video where 100% is done perfect. And if you have any questions make sure to leave
them in the comments below. You can also find me on Facebook, JerryRig Everything. On Twitter
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often, and I'd love to see you around. Thanks for watching.