Well im having rogers ship me a new phone (i only got the phone last friday, so not even a week yet) because the phone is unable to detect any sim cards. I dont know what the exact cause of the problem is but im pretty sure it has something to do with me opening the back case and pressing it back in too hard. Or maybe i short circuited the metal of the sim card holder some how when i was doing rom reboots
In all honesty, the design of the back panel is completely stupid and really cheap. The plastic is super flimsy and garbage. Plus the way you have to snap it back into the phone requires some pressure that could easily damage the phone.
Just be careful when you guys are touching around that simcard metal area. Any static electric shock could potentially cause you to end up with a expensive brick.
Ummm why do you need to put pressure on the middle area of the phone?
Whenever I place the back cover back on, I just start from the bottom of the phone and make sure that its in and then go around the phone clockwise and clip in the rest of the phone edges and thats it. Never have to touch the centre of the phone.
Max Sterling said:
Ummm why do you need to put pressure on the middle area of the phone?
Whenever I place the back cover back on, I just start from the bottom of the phone and make sure that its in and then go around the phone clockwise and clip in the rest of the phone edges and thats it. Never have to touch the centre of the phone.
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This is what I also do when I need to put the cover back on.
I didn't press the middle when I was putting back the rear panel but I think I might have touched that metal sim bracket and maybe that's what caused it to short circuit.
Just becarful when handling with no rear panel. Also while charging the phone and trying to get a gps lock, the area behind and around the simcard gets really hot. My stats widget says 53c and that also might have caused this weird short circuit... I I don't know
You're doing it wrong.
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In all honesty, the design of the back panel is completely stupid and really cheap. The plastic is super flimsy and garbage. Plus the way you have to snap it back into the phone requires some pressure that could easily damage the phone.
Just be careful when you guys are touching around that simcard metal area. Any static electric shock could potentially cause you to end up with a expensive brick.
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Static shock is a potential problem with any electronic device.
I don't think the cover had anything to do with it.
Mine is on and off all the time, 5-10 times a day at times when I'm testing different things. Never had a problem like this.
Actually the back is pretty durable for the amount of times I've torn it off in a hissy fit...plus I love the texture. I'm always afraid I'm going to snap it in half but it can take alot of bending. It's amazingly flexible for plastic. But you never press the middle...slide your finger along the sides only till it all snaps in.
+1 for that. I slide my fingers on the sides to push it in
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No offense but why is this not locked? How can you brick your phone cause you take the back off the WRONG way?
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I wouldn't call what he did "bricking". Bricking is usually caused by an upgrade gone wrong. He supposedly did damage to his hardware by pushing on the center too hard....and it's worth knowing about.
MikeyFTL said:
I'm always afraid I'm going to snap it in half but it can take alot of bending.
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i think there was a demo by samsung where a rep actually folded it in half and it was fine
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I wouldn't call what he did "bricking". Bricking is usually caused by an upgrade gone wrong. He supposedly did damage to his hardware by pushing on the center too hard....and it's worth knowing about.
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I know he didnt brick it, I'm just goin on what he referred his problem to. Info that anybody should have known
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The back panel is seriously the only thing I dislike about this phone -_-
Why did it have to downgrade from the Captivates nice hard back panel!
in retrospect i think i might have bricked the phone by doing a bad flash instead of it being a physical problem. Im pretty sure somewhere along the way i must have deleted the EFS files when i was trying to get rid of the root and restoring it back to original firmware. I did some research and the problems im having with the no carrier/no imei/ is related to EFS being deleted.
I just dont know how to get it back now.
Also if i send the phone in for warranty and they find out that the EFS is deleted, would they consider that my fault? Luckily the replacement phone i got torched itself (screen burnt out in like 1 hour) so they are replacing that for the galaxy S II but i still have to send the original one back.
you obviously did something wrong. I've had some crazy electronics hooked up to my SIM and other parts of my device. I keep wires soldered onto the mainboard which lead out of the device for direct communication with the processor. I have never run into a single problem.
You did something stupid with your sim card. It does not damage easily even when you're playing with the ciruits all the time. I know this because I do play with the circuits all the time.
DANIEL133337 said:
The back panel is seriously the only thing I dislike about this phone -_-
Why did it have to downgrade from the Captivates nice hard back panel!
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Maybe to save some money, and to reduce phone weight.
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All you need to do to fix the screen bleed is loosen the screws on the back of the phone. Ya'll are crazy taking multiple trips to tmobile, picking up all these phones and having the same problem everytime. Man, such an easy fix for such a huge fiasco.
I might add, it may be necessary to get further inside the phone to loosen screws. That would of course mean breaking the "void" sticker covering one of the screws. I haven't tried this yet, but loosening the outer screws did a lot of good for now.
If anyone has a teardown of the g2x, post it! this would be greatly helpful.
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All you need to do to fix the screen bleed is loosen the screws on the back of the phone. Ya'll are crazy taking multiple trips to tmobile, picking up all these phones and having the same problem everytime. Man, such an easy fix for such a huge fiasco.
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Pictures....
My boy got that problem on his ima try it later on his device mines has very little in the corner but it doesn't even bother me .....actually nothing really bothers me about this device I love it oh wait one thing I'm missing from my mytouch 4g ....the optical track pad thing lol.....other than that this phone is great .....I get the casual network disconnects but ehh what phone doesn't .....
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All you need to do to fix the screen bleed is loosen the screws on the back of the phone. Ya'll are crazy taking multiple trips to tmobile, picking up all these phones and having the same problem everytime. Man, such an easy fix for such a huge fiasco.
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Legit picture before and after or video of the before and after.
Is anyone willing to attempt to open up their G2X and see if they can fix the problem?
Yes before and after with pictures please. Thanks!
Loosening the screws won't help with the light bleed though since it's due to an improper sealing of the lcd panel. Tightening or loosening the screws won't change that.
As for the actual backlight bleed effect, I'm pretty sure that's a result of the light bleed but I'm not 100% sure so if anyone is brave enough to try it, it would be much appreciated.
WHat youre saying makes no sense. How will loosening the screws fix any screen bleed issue? I think you should explain better because this doesnt sound very plausable. WHat in actuality is causing the screenbleed to disapear?
UNless somehow you are re-adjusting the case, which in turn actually covers the outer edge of the screen better, thereby eliminating "screenbleed", what you are saying is ridiculous. I would think loosening the screws would have the opposite effect.
seriously, specifics and step by step on what you did would be greatly appreciated by the rest I'm sure as this seems to be a major defect in the phone.
I personally have zero screen bleed, unless I turn up the brightness to 100% and then its very very minor in the top left.
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WHat youre saying makes no sense. How will loosening the screws fix any screen bleed issue? I think you should explain better because this doesnt sound very plausable. WHat in actuality is causing the screenbleed to disapear?
UNless somehow you are re-adjusting the case, which in turn actually covers the outer edge of the screen better, thereby eliminating "screenbleed", what you are saying is ridiculous. I would think loosening the screws would have the opposite effect.
seriously, specifics and step by step on what you did would be greatly appreciated by the rest I'm sure as this seems to be a major defect in the phone.
I personally have zero screen bleed, unless I turn up the brightness to 100% and then its very very minor in the top left.
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Step by step? 1) put screw driver in screw and turn lefty loosy 2) repeat step for other screws.
The logic behind this process is to remove pressure on the corners of the screen. If you push down in the middle of the screen, you get screen bleed in the middle. So, if you pull back a bit on the inside housing (after back cover is removed and screws are loosened), you can see the screen bleed move around and sort of disappear.
I guess it's possible that the bleed is caused by too much pressure? Improperly torqued screws? I'd say the theory is plausible but it doesn't bother me enough to try. Thanks for the info OP!
The OP is a LG Rep trying to get ppl to void their warranty so they don't have to replace them. This is stupid!
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The OP is a LG Rep trying to get ppl to void their warranty so they don't have to replace them. This is stupid!
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That actually does make sense cuz i think he re edit his post saying it will void the warranty and when I first looked at the post it didn't have thy part as I recall
My void sticker is on the middle screw so just for kicks I went ahead and loosened the top left screw. Did absolutely nothing. This thread needs to be locked for misinforming users.
Can someone else try this please. I don't expect anyone to void there warranty to see if this works but if you just loosen the outside screw it will not void your warranty. I don't have a screw driver small enough. This doesn't sound plausible but it does make me curious. If nobody does it tonight, I will buy a smaller screw driver tomorrow and try it.
Before doing this, you may want to peek what's inside from FCC:
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/fcc_query.php?gc=BEJ&pc=P999DW
Choose "details", then open "internal photos".
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Can someone else try this please. I don't expect anyone to void there warranty to see if this works but if you just loosen the outside screw it will not void your warranty. I don't have a screw driver small enough. This doesn't sound plausible but it does make me curious. If nobody does it tonight, I will buy a smaller screw driver tomorrow and try it.
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I'll try it......edit:close thread didn't do ****...
yea tried it, this does nothing.
I would be more then happy to take apart my phone. however the link provided with the photos is not enough to go on and disassembly it gets me to the core but it seems to stop there.
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The OP is a LG Rep trying to get ppl to void their warranty so they don't have to replace them. This is stupid!
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Hahahahahahaha! This right here is the quality posting I expect from XDA. Good loving Lord.
well, i'm not sure about your phones, but my G2x does not have the "void" sticker over the screw holes....
when removing the battery cover all the screws are accessible... is the "void" sticker maybe under the cover beneath the battery cover?
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well, i'm not sure about your phones, but my G2x does not have the "void" sticker over the screw holes....
when removing the battery cover all the screws are accessible... is the "void" sticker maybe under the cover beneath the battery cover?
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Who knows... I'm not touching anything. heh...
So I've replaced the digitizer on one of my thunderbolts and all was well. I had not really gotten the lcd affixed to the chassis correctly so after a few days the gap in the phone and the frame caused me to tear back into the phone. I got it all sticky taped down to the chassis and put the phone back together and now the phone is doing all sorts of crazy things. I did a format system, reflashed the rom, bamf forever 1.0.5 and the phone seemed to be fixed and now its right back to doing what it was. It seems to register touch when im not touching the device, also some times when i do touch it its a few inches off, making menu selections impossible and typing as well. I've gotten flustered with this phone beyond belief.
I also had a inc2 do the same thing a while back. Which has me thinking it may be something common. Possibly a dirty connection on the ribbon cable or something? Its getting too late to break into it again but I was wondering if anyone has had anything similar happen?
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So I've replaced the digitizer on one of my thunderbolts and all was well. I had not really gotten the lcd affixed to the chassis correctly so after a few days the gap in the phone and the frame caused me to tear back into the phone. I got it all sticky taped down to the chassis and put the phone back together and now the phone is doing all sorts of crazy things. I did a format system, reflashed the rom, bamf forever 1.0.5 and the phone seemed to be fixed and now its right back to doing what it was. It seems to register touch when im not touching the device, also some times when i do touch it its a few inches off, making menu selections impossible and typing as well. I've gotten flustered with this phone beyond belief.
I also had a inc2 do the same thing a while back. Which has me thinking it may be something common. Possibly a dirty connection on the ribbon cable or something? Its getting too late to break into it again but I was wondering if anyone has had anything similar happen?
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I've never torn into a phone, and I never intend to. My guess, if I had to make one, would be that the digitizer is somehow making contact with the body of the phone in some undesirable way, possibly through a slightly conductive tape. ANY sort of contact with a substance or object that could trigger a change in the screens static field will cause you problems.
I think its just the digitizer that's bad, it can't be anything else, just doesn't make sense... So, now who sells the absolute best digitizers?
I've bought fifty plus digizers from various people on eBay, I've used repair universe and can't recall ever having gotten a bad one. But who has the best?
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Just googled it and quite a few threads on various android sites where people replaced digitizer and have all kinds of problems getting the touch to work properly afterwards on thunderbolt. Must not be an easy task on this phone.
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I dropped my S3 a couple of weeks ago and got a hairline crack in the top glass. Although I probably could have lived with it, I decided to send it to Samsung to get it fixed to the tune of $178US (their standard display replacement cost). I got the phone back yesterday and have to say that QC at Samsung's repair dept leaves a lot to be desired.
First thing I noticed is that the sticker on the inside of the phone that has the IMEI must have been removed and re-applied. The sticker wasn't flat along the edges and had a bunch of air bubbles under the middle. While I understand the need to have the same IMEI #, I was really surprised that they wouldn't print a new one to stick on the phone.
When putting the phone back together, I noticed that the back cover would not fit flush to the rest of the phone. Upon further inspection this is due to the fact that a plastic cover on the bottom of the phone was not screwed all of the way down because a tab on that plastic cover was not fit properly into the middle plastic cover. I was able to fix this by loosening the screws along the bottom half of the phone, pushing the bottom plastic cover in to properly fit it and re-tightening the screws.
Finally when I turned the phone on, the language was set to Vietnamese. I had to fumble through the settings to change the language to English. While I understood that they were going to reset the phone, why would they set the default language to anything other than English?
While the screen was fixed, I'm somewhat surprised that there were so many other issues with the phone. I'm definitely not happy since I paid for the repairs.
Anybody else have a bad experience with Samsung repairs?
Their repair center is probably in Vietnam, or maybe you even got a refurbished model and they just slapped your imei sticker on it. I think your just nitpicking this one, besides the sticker, it was a simple correction on your part.
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Their repair center is probably in Vietnam, or maybe you even got a refurbished model and they just slapped your imei sticker on it. I think your just nitpicking this one, besides the sticker, it was a simple correction on your part.
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I think he has a right to be upset and I would call them to complain. If you send a device in for repair, after they fix everything on the device it should be sent back in the same condition or better. I would not want to be messing around with screws on my phone and wouldn't want stickers removed and replaced like crap. Who knows what else they f'd up inside the device.
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I think he has a right to be upset and I would call them to complain. If you send a device in for repair, after they fix everything on the device it should be sent back in the same condition or better. I would not want to be messing around with screws on my phone and wouldn't want stickers removed and replaced like crap. Who knows what else they f'd up inside the device.
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I agree I would definitely call and complain. They may give you something for it or help you out in some way but companies need to know that the job isn't being done correctly
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ok my mistake, he can send it back to them and be without a phone again if he likes. Yes there shouldn't be issues.
just got mine back i had a broken screen as well. the only thing ive noticed is that my signal is very poor it was not like this before.
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ok my mistake, he can send it back to them and be without a phone again if he likes. Yes there shouldn't be issues.
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Glad you like to get taken advantage of and settle for poor work when you are paying good money for something.
It is because people settle like yourself that the can get away with this.
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Glad you like to get taken advantage of and settle for poor work when you are paying good money for something.
It is because people settle like yourself that the can get away with this.
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Or, one could just fix the reassembly issues themselves (if feasible) and ensure their feedback on rebuild quality issues are received by Support in a clear fashion - that won't let anyone "get away with" it.
I've found that good feedback can make a decent impression and sometimes gets a person's butt kicked to attempt doing their job a bit more in line with expectations. I don't like to be unfair, but feel feedback on specific quality control issues are certainly fair.
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Dang that sucks. Get an otterbox. You must have hit it hard because this Gorilla Glass 2 is amazing
scy0846 said:
Dang that sucks. Get an otterbox. You must have hit it hard because this Gorilla Glass 2 is amazing
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Oh, really?
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So on my Nexus 5, the backlight started going off randomly... tapping phone would bring it back..
Then eventually it went out and i had to bend/flex the phone and it would keep working a while..
I contacted support then, but one time i bent it a little to get it on and the frame (plastic outer edge cracked), doh.. Now, of course, they will not give me a warranty repair because the device is physically damaged. So i tried a new screen, no dice. Now i have two good screens and a phone that still wont work unless i bend the crap out of it. Anyone else see this problem? Worth trying to replace motherboard? or should i just sell parts (new screen i bought, old screen, battery, etc) and buy a whole new phone... There is one specific point where i can bend it and backlight comes on, but i cant find a short or loose connection anywhere. I have had the thing COMPLETELY apart and back together multiple times. I should mention, it works totally fine when backlight is off, just no backlight so i can only see it in super bright direct illumination.
Any ideas???
Take it to a mobile phone repair shop.
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Fixed for now! Woohoo! Based on the position of where i had to flex it, i tried a little gap filler... a folded piece of paper, between the SIM slot and the back frame. With everything screwed back together, it just puts a little pressure on that area of the main board.
Now the only problem is the screen i bought is defective (lines all up and down it) so now i have to disassemble again to put the old one back in.... oh joy, now to return it through ebay... I'm sure that will work well. Either way, phone working again! FYI, this phone is REALLLY easy to take apart and put back together.
EDIT: F.. snapped the end off one of the little antenna cables (the black one, on the right when looking at the uncovered back of the phone) when redoing the screen. Anyone know what that is for? WiFi and cell data signals seem ok.. Looks like a diversity antenna for something, because of all the others at the tope. Maybe google will have an answer.
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EDIT: F.. snapped the end off one of the little antenna cables (the black one, on the right when looking at the uncovered back of the phone) when redoing the screen. Anyone know what that is for? WiFi and cell data signals seem ok.. Looks like a diversity antenna for something, because of all the others at the tope. Maybe google will have an answer.
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Check Bluetooth/try calling/using data just to be sure.
Do not discuss something on how to make fool of insurance company or even an warranty, It's not allowed here. Thanks
Hey everyone.
I purchased my phone through duty free, unlocked so after checking with local Samsung repair center they told me my warranty is not applicable in the country i live in, because i purchased the phone in duty free. This is not an official Samsung repair center, just a random one authorized by Samsung btw.
Either way, the issue is that the back glass is slightly lifting on one side/ corner. The top right corner (Next to the heart rate sensor) is slightly unstuck from the body, and it creates a tiny little gap, which ends up running down the side of the phone a little.
I have tried finding a solution and no luck. What i want to know is, if i take a heat gun, and give the back glass a blast under the heat gun in order to warm up the glue, and then apply some pressure evenly across the back glass, will that do the trick? Is it even safe to do so ?
Thanks for the help and if necessary i can try submit some pictures.
It should be safe to do as long as you don't heat it up too much as to cause the internals of the phone to get over-stressed. I would power down your phone and make sure it is cooled before starting the process. You don't want it turned on and then your phone decide that it wants to update 20 apps and cause it to heat up any more than it already is.
Also, be gentle with applying pressure to the glass, if you happened to have dropped it and warped the frame that would explain why the glass is lifting up, and if you press too hard it may break it. Just be careful and you should be fine. It's not a guaranteed fix but it's a safe method to try out.
If you need help on using the heat gun just look online for videos of repairing phone screens, plenty of them use heat guns to get the adhesive loosened up and almost always state what temperature to set it to. I feel like it was around 700°F (370°C) last I looked, but don't quote me on that.
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It should be safe to do as long as you don't heat it up too much as to cause the internals of the phone to get over-stressed. I would power down your phone and make sure it is cooled before starting the process. You don't want it turned on and then your phone decide that it wants to update 20 apps and cause it to heat up any more than it already is.
Also, be gentle with applying pressure to the glass, if you happened to have dropped it and warped the frame that would explain why the glass is lifting up, and if you press too hard it may break it. Just be careful and you should be fine. It's not a guaranteed fix but it's a safe method to try out.
If you need help on using the heat gun just look online for videos of repairing phone screens, plenty of them use heat guns to get the adhesive loosened up and almost always state what temperature to set it to. I feel like it was around 700°F (370°C) last I looked, but don't quote me on that.
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Thanks a lot for the reply. I will try give it a shot over the weekend. The phone is in perfect conditions and has never been dropped. In fact when i press down on the glass, it kinda slots back into place, but then sticks back out, so i'm assuming its un-even adhesive or whatever the case is with it. In reality its such an un-noticeable issue, but you know how it is... once you know its there, that's the only thing you notice
I wonder if anyone else had this issue because i found a YouTuber who actually also had his back glass un-stick from the body
Sorry to hear about your luck. I would think it goes without saying, but it will probably no longer be waterproof.
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Sorry to hear about your luck. I would think it goes without saying, but it will probably no longer be waterproof.
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Yeah, i already came to that realization. Thanks anyway !
Did you get it to work?
I am having the same issue as you had and I wondered if you came up with a solution???
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I am having the same issue as you had and I wondered if you came up with a solution???
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From my experience doing so does not work. You need to replace the adhesive which is easy to do, what is more difficult is sourcing an OEM one