iPhone Glass Repair – Don’t Try This at Home, Kids

Lonnie Lazar ()

If you’ve ever balked at the cost of repairing your Apple gear, especially your iPhone or iPod, for example, consider what the repair shop is getting into when it receives your damaged product. As the gallery below of pictures detailing some of the intricacies involved in repairing the cracked glass touchscreen of an iPhone shows,

a) While the guys at iFixit are awesome and intrepid, and may even be willing to hold your hand through some processes, DIY repairs may not be the best route if you don’t like the prices Apple charges; and

b) your should consider device insurance and a replacement device if you have butterfingers and are afraid you may end up cracking your iPhone’s touchscreen.

We’re pretty sure that doublesided tape, portable hairdryers and big binder clips are not standard repair tools at the Apple authorized repair center near you, but hey, whatever works, right?

More photos and detailed repair descriptions are at TechRepublic.
All images © 2008, Mark Kaelin/TechRepublic.

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Lonnie Lazar

Lonnie Lazar is a writer-musician-web designer-attorney. He writes about Apple for Cult of Mac and Mac|Life, and about VoIP and telecommunications for Voxilla. Follow Lonnie on Twitter @LonnieLazar, join the Cult of Mac on Facebook, and find Lonnie's photos on Flickr.

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    I acquired my iPhone without paying for it. Having nothing to lose, I decided to remove the glass from the screen. I looked at all the tutorials, watched the videos, checked out the comments. In the end, i skipped the goo gone, because I don’t feel comfortable with it. I noticed that many people ruined the thing under the glass, so i turned the phone on. I put it on the flashlight app and removed the glass. This way, i could see if I was ruining the under thing and stop whatever I was doing. I got the glass off with the plastic spudgers. Razor blade would have been quicker, but I decided not to use metal anything to pry. Took some time. maybe an hour and a half. including breaks… I’d do it again. $5 glass from ebay including shipping and two plastic spudgers. you can’t beat a $5 total repair price.