Fixing ipod touch screen... Really off topic...

[r_chez_08]

Hey guys,
well i am amazing at braking things, however i survived over a year with my ipod, until the inevitable happened, the screen glass cracked and then the inevitable happened again... it cracked even more

so i just ordered a new "digitizer" off... umm.. the norm, eBay. Just wondered if any of you guys have had to fix an ipod or iphone screen, and how hard it is.

if not, i will just follow the youtube vids and hope for the best
Rob

 

[kendelrk]

how did it work out?

 

[Bluethunder3320]

i ran mine over with my kart....... some of the lights are not working because i think it was bleeding LCD liquid......

be careful on opening them, my friend had to open his to fix the volume button and he broke a ton of wires and now its screwed for good......

 

[dictionary6767]

you open an iPod touch up

 

[kendelrk]

thats why mine stays in the house lol. mines never had to be opened, my old one had gotten stolen which sucked, but my grandma went and baught me a new one, then a new greyhound engine

 

[r_chez_08]

It went good, i am now typing on my ipod with a new screen glass!
If anyone plans to do this i reccomend watching youtube vids and buying the digitizer with the plastic bezel and home button in one.
Rob

 

[Rustydog2010]

Whats a 'digitizer'?

Jeremy.

 

[r_chez_08]

The digitizer is the glass panel in fromt of the screen that you touch, that also has all the touch sensivity stuff in it, so basically the touch screen.
Rob

 

[oscaryu1]

The digitizer the panel BEHIND the glass... the actual "screen". You bought the wrong part... if your glass it cracked, but the image is fine, all you need it a .99$ piece of glass from Hong Kong, not the digitzer...

 

[r_chez_08]

Yeah you may be right, but the chances of me removing the glass from the digitizer with the digitizer intact, and gluing it back onto a new glass without obscuring the screen more than the original crack is very low. I could also not buy just the glass, and i have made a deal with myself not to ever buy from hong kong again, as the customer service is crap and the items take about 3 weeks to come... All for the cost of £0.50 less.
Rob
Edit: it sounds like you are referring to the lcd screen.
The ipod and iphone screens consist of:
1: the lcd, which displays the image.
2: the glass, which consists of a small panel with what looks like very veryvery small wires running through (this is what makes it touch screen) and a panel of hard plastic/ glass.
Rob