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Hi, has anyone on here ever managed to stick a screen protector on their desire without air bubbles underneath? I must have gone through at least six and still can't bloody do it..
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Whiskeybreath said:
Hi, has anyone on here ever managed to stick a screen protector on their desire without air bubbles underneath? I must have gone through at least six and still can't bloody do it..
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Yes, it's quite simple once you figure it out. Make sure you place on as flat as possible and before you take the second protector film off smooth it down onto the screen slowly and use an applicator to smooth it on slowly. If you don't have an applicator just use a credit card.
It does take some practice though

I tried some screen protectors, but for me the Zagg Invisibleshield is the no.1
Easy to put on and managed to put it on without any bubbles (2 times).

davebugyi said:
I tried some screen protectors, but for me the Zagg Invisibleshield is the no.1
Easy to put on and managed to put it on without any bubbles (2 times).
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Not cheap though. Had a look at Amazon and they're expensive and the reviews aren't too good either.

I have put quite a few screen protectors on- for family and friends, all of them are still bubble/dust free. All of these are the 'cheaply priced' one from ebay
The key things are :
Make sure the surrounding area where you are applying the protector is dust free- somewhere like a bathroom/shower room is best.
Clean the screen thoroughly with a lint-free cloth (usually provided with the protector).
Remove the 'number 1 plastic protector film only a bit at time, exposing as minimal as necessary, whilst using a credit card (with a thin lint free cloth over it) to press the the film from one end as you remove the protector film from othe other end.
As said above, keep the 'number 2 protector' on and smooth out any bubbles again with the credit card.
Peel off the 'number 2 protector'. Be careful, this sometimes 'raises' the actual protector off the screen and can allow dust to get in.
If any bubbles do appear after taking the number 2 protector off, use the credit card wrapped in a lint cloth to smooth them out (the cloth will of course prevent scratches).
Sometimes, dust can get in whilst you are applying. You WILL need to remove the protector and wash it thoroughly under running water.
I have had to do this a few times. Do not dry the protector with anything; you can actually apply it on wet (much like car window tint). You can squeeze out any excessive water out to the edge, again with the credit card. Just have another piece of cloth ready to absorb the excess and avoid getting it in the speaker.

Any Matt protector for suggestion??

vmax007 said:
Any Matt protector for suggestion??
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Try these on ebay.

U use a credit card its more easier and then I push the big air bubbles out .. it doesn't matter if there are a couple of small air bubbles as they will fix themselves
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xybadog said:
Try these on ebay.
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How resistant to scratches are these?
My current one is ok, but has got scratched pretty quickly.

reaper7881 said:
U use a credit card its more easier and then I push the big air bubbles out .. it doesn't matter if there are a couple of small air bubbles as they will fix themselves
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Yes with CC it's more easier and if you do it right than you will not have bubbles

BluNoze said:
How resistant to scratches are these?
My current one is ok, but has got scratched pretty quickly.
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Pretty good. I've had no scratches at all.

screen protectors are a must i think

xybadog said:
Pretty good. I've had no scratches at all.
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Thanks, I'm now off shopping!

You could also try:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/FoliX-FX-CLEAR-screen-protector-Desire/dp/B003IMVJ2K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313400394&sr=8-1
It fits very good and keeps your display scratch free

I bought a pack of 3 on ebay and they work great, the touch sensitivity seems fine with it on.
Cost 99 cents.
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I have been using my Desire for about 13 months till now and I always carry it in my pocket.
I do notuse any screen protectiona and I still have not a single scratch untill now...I dunno if the protective screen is really necessary.

I wish I'd fitted a screen protector. I keep my Desire in a pouch but still managed to scratch the screen. Only a small one, but it still annoys me!

I always used cheap ones from ebay, even the ones sold with my hard-cases.
Here's i do (method found here on xda) : just take a warm/hot shower if there's "water" on the mirror, then you're good to go as the dust will be on the floor.
Then you just have to use the method here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16239021&postcount=5

I have my desire since 8 months ago without any protection and the screen is perfect, as the first day. No matter if you carry anything made of metal in the same pocket your desire is. It's almost unscratchable

I find that screen protectors dull the look of the screen somewhat. Just take care not to carry coins or keys in the pocket along with the phone.

Dust Under Screen

So I finally broke down and ordered a white digitizer after scratching the original one and banging up the bezel pretty good. I did all the work in my kitchen and used surgical gloves to keep the digitizer and LCD as clean as possible but no matter how hard I try I cant get the thing together without a couple specs of dust between the LCD and digitizer.
So to those who have replaced there digitizer on this phone or anyother.. is it impossible to reassemble the phone without ANY dust short of doing it in a clean room or am I just doing it wrong?

When I took my iPhones apart I would always wear gloves and always have a can of compressed air next to me. That and a microfiber cloth that you use to clean glasses with.
Just be very careful.

Yeeeah.. Had a cloth and wore gloves but didnt think about the air. I guess Ill take it apart again and give it a couple bursts to see if that helps. Thanks.

Id say use an ionizing air gun, but then again, at 450$ and up...not really cost effective lol.
Tips that may or may not work.
Clean the glass and apply the screen in a room with more humidity to reduce the amount of dust in the air. The more still the air, the better.
After cleaning, use a fabric softener sheet that has already been used in your laundry, and rub it all over the parts of the electronics that you don’t want dust attracted to. Instead of attracting dust, the electronics will repel dust!

now there's a creative approach. guess I'm doing laundry tomorrow lol

Post a pic. Been pondering on the white diggitizer but not sure if it looks better than black
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ill post one when I get home. never buying another black phone again
btw, took the phone back apart and used some compressed air before fitting the lcd back into the digitizer. I was able to get it together with only few specs of dust that are only visible when the screen is off and I. the sun. this I can live with but I'm going to give it one more try to get it 100% dust free. I like the way the lcd fits into digitizer because dust cant creep in once they're fitted together.

Try doing this outside, maybe in your house balcony or something. A house has like 1000 times more dust particles than outdoors.
I think you'll have better luck doing this outdoor.

Spray room freshener or run warm water in bathroom and steam should knock of particle apply within.

Where did you purchase your digitizer?
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G2xer said:
Where did you purchase your digitizer?
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This: http://www.ebay.com/itm/170775216905?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
Also, as promised. Please control your orgasms.
Screen protector is off center but im too lazy to fix it right now lol...

regP said:
This: http://www.ebay.com/itm/170775216905?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
Also, as promised. Please control your orgasms.
Screen protector is off center but im too lazy to fix it right now lol...
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Boner achieved.
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regP said:
This: http://www.ebay.com/itm/170775216905?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
Also, as promised. Please control your orgasms.
Screen protector is off center but im too lazy to fix it right now lol...
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Awesome. I'm getting one
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the good news is I was able to get the lcd and digitizer together without a single speck of dust. the bad news is after a few days some dust managed to creep in :| trying to think of a way to seal the small gap between the 2 with something other than super glue lol...

regP said:
the good news is I was able to get the lcd and digitizer together without a single speck of dust. the bad news is after a few days some dust managed to creep in :| trying to think of a way to seal the small gap between the 2 with something other than super glue lol...
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Double sided adhesive tape from 3m.
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those strips would need to be VERY thin.. like 1mm wide if that.

Yep. They make em. I used them for my install.
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did you have to cut the tape yourself before you lined the LCD with it?

regP said:
did you have to cut the tape yourself before you lined the LCD with it?
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Yeah.
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I'll swing by the hardware store and pick some up tomorrow appreciate all the input. Broke my heart a little bit to see dust starting to creep in after i finally managed to get the phone back together without a single speck.
Hopefully I'll only have to disassemble one more time. Least a soldering iron wont be involved like during my Vibrant days

[Q] Samsung Infuse Cracked Glass

I have a samsung infuse from AT&T and recently dropped my phone.
The glass is completely cracked; however, the touch screen is working like normal.
Is there a way to replace the cracked glass only?
If it is possible, does anyone have instructions or a guide on how to fix the cracked glass?
Or, would I just have to file a claim with AT&T Insurance?
Thank you!

Your most likely going to have to claim insurance on your phone from my research the glass is not replaceable !!!
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Kdog71588 said:
Your most likely going to have to claim insurance on your phone from my research the glass is not replaceable !!!
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Really?
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...e&ie=UTF-8&q=samsung+infuse+glass+replacement

Well damn guess you can but I guess it depends upon how brave you are to start ripping into your phone and if your comfortable with small electronics
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Either of you go through with this yet? Would be curious to hear how it went...
I've looked around online, and everything I'm seeing says the digitizer, LCD, and outer glass are one fused together piece on the Infuse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZI6d59ufSc
Even though eBay sellers have the Infuse outer glass for sale separately, it seems like pulling the glass off of the LCD/digitizer without destroying it is going to be extremely difficult. Even if you get the old glass off without damage, you still need to figure out how to attach the new glass to it.
Then what??????
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Kdog71588 said:
Either of you go through with this yet? Would be curious to hear how it went...
I've looked around online, and everything I'm seeing says the digitizer, LCD, and outer glass are one fused together piece on the Infuse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZI6d59ufSc
Even though eBay sellers have the Infuse outer glass for sale separately, it seems like pulling the glass off of the LCD/digitizer without destroying it is going to be extremely difficult. Even if you get the old glass off without damage, you still need to figure out how to attach the new glass to it.
Then what??????
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http://www.repairsuniverse.com/samsung-infuse-i997-take-apart-repair-guide.html
This must be the instructions to remove outer screen because I have seen a video to replace the digitizer and screen assembly and it just popped off after removing some ribbon cables. I am waiting for outer screen ,outer casing and battery cover to arrive from China. Cost $30 with shipping. Will look brand new on outside if it works. I'll let you guys know how I make out.
Edit....After removing top glass with razor blade as it is fused to LCD with glue I lost response to touch. Ordered new LCD and digitizer with bezel (plastic frame that screen is attached to and circuit board mounts on) . I am not sure if I could get it to work if I could glue or fuse new top glass back on. Scratched the heck out of it anyways. Live and learn, if anyone else had better luck I would like to know.

I had great luck with mine. I started by heating the outer glass with a blow dryer and used a card from a regular deck of playing cards starting from top to bottom of the screen to get it started. After i got it about half way i didn't even use the blow dryer anymore just allot of playing cards. You have to be extremely careful on the top right of the LCD not to damage the ribbon for the digitzer. I got a few minor scratches on the LCD from shards of old glass but you can only see them if the screen is off and you look really hard. It pretty much looks brand new now. I just used thin double sided tape on the outside edges of the new glass for now as i haven't found a permanent way to hold down the glass yet. I will probably leave it that way so next time it breaks i don't have to go through the long process of separating the glass from the LCD again. In my opinion it was well worth the $10 and the labor to replace just the outer glass rather than the $130-$150 for the replacement LCD/digitizer and outer glass.

Thanks for trying.
cbroadsword said:
I had great luck with mine. I started by heating the outer glass with a blow dryer and used a card from a regular deck of playing cards starting from top to bottom of the screen to get it started. After i got it about half way i didn't even use the blow dryer anymore just allot of playing cards. You have to be extremely careful on the top right of the LCD not to damage the ribbon for the digitzer. I got a few minor scratches on the LCD from shards of old glass but you can only see them if the screen is off and you look really hard. It pretty much looks brand new now. I just used thin double sided tape on the outside edges of the new glass for now as i haven't found a permanent way to hold down the glass yet. I will probably leave it that way so next time it breaks i don't have to go through the long process of separating the glass from the LCD again. In my opinion it was well worth the $10 and the labor to replace just the outer glass rather than the $130-$150 for the replacement LCD/digitizer and outer glass.
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Hey thanks for trying, braveheart. I'm gonna try that too. Dont have a 100 to spend on the pair.
Can you make a guide of that? I think it will help alot of users. You can get pictures from internet and mark the critical points which will help in separation.

broken screen. Help!!! .
Month back, dropped my phone(2-3 times).
Now stuck with unusable mobile.
Can somebody suggest,where I can get its lcd [email protected]+ digitilizer, on cheap price.

[Q] Can LCD digitizer be separated from glass?

The screen on my Skyrocket became recently cracked. The cracks begin at the very top and make really small, tight cracks, then it spiderwebs down the front of the phone into bigger pieces of glass. Towards the top, the smaller pieces of glass have begun to fall out. It's not really dangerous, but I am kinda nervous of cutting my finger one of these times.
I've been searching on Google and Youtube to find an answer to my question, but I can't seem to find a real, definitive answer. I want to know if the glass/lens of the digitizer can be safely removed from the rest of the digitizer?
I know all the tricks of using a heat gun, and a little scraper, but I also heard that the digitizer itself is like 1mm thick and VERY delicate?
So I went ahead and bought the glass off of Ebay for like $7. Then I received the glass in the mail, and got kinda apprehensive of doing it.
Another question: If I successfully remove all the old glass, how do I secure the new lens to the digitizer? Is there some sort of glue I need, or is it friction from the chrome trim ring?

Yupp i think it can be done
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Afrojoe said:
Yupp i think it can be done
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Damn. You got that research and stuff?

demonblod said:
The screen on my Skyrocket became recently cracked. The cracks begin at the very top and make really small, tight cracks, then it spiderwebs down the front of the phone into bigger pieces of glass. Towards the top, the smaller pieces of glass have begun to fall out. It's not really dangerous, but I am kinda nervous of cutting my finger one of these times.
I've been searching on Google and Youtube to find an answer to my question, but I can't seem to find a real, definitive answer. I want to know if the glass/lens of the digitizer can be safely removed from the rest of the digitizer?
I know all the tricks of using a heat gun, and a little scraper, but I also heard that the digitizer itself is like 1mm thick and VERY delicate?
So I went ahead and bought the glass off of Ebay for like $7. Then I received the glass in the mail, and got kinda apprehensive of doing it.
Another question: If I successfully remove all the old glass, how do I secure the new lens to the digitizer? Is there some sort of glue I need, or is it friction from the chrome trim ring?
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Good luck man.....i tried and its a PITA!!!! Haha my dumbass ended up cracking my digitizer/LCD so i had to shell out another $130 for a new one......i hope u have better luck than me tho.....
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jyazzie110 said:
Good luck man.....i tried and its a PITA!!!! Haha my dumbass ended up cracking my digitizer/LCD so i had to shell out another $130 for a new one......i hope u have better luck than me tho.....
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That's EXACTLY what I'm worried about. But I guess my screen is done for either way. It's terribly cracked and falling apart now, so it can't get much worse.

demonblod said:
That's EXACTLY what I'm worried about. But I guess my screen is done for either way. It's terribly cracked and falling apart now, so it can't get much worse.
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In the accessories section a guy claims to have done it and used double sided tape to put the glass back on......idk tho i heated it up so much i burned my finger wen i touched the glass and i still couldn't separate it from the digitizer.....id say just buy a new digitizer......it isnt hard to replace.....i bought the digitizer alone without the housing around it and saved about $25.....
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Nope. It didn't work. I broke it. I kept using my heatgun, but the stupid adhesive just wouldn't give up. I turned up the heat a little bit, and suddenly a section of the digitizer just blew up into a dull green color. I guess that means I fried the pixels. Even after I burned the digitizer, the adhesive was still very strong. I think this is actually impossible. In order to loosen the adhesive, you would have to achieve a temperature far past the point of damaging the digitizer.
Another concept:
I had MANY small pieces of glass. I kept thinking "I wish I had nice, big pieces of glass. Then this would go so much faster". When I did try to lift a larger chunk of glass, the combined tension of the adhesive over the whole surface area caused the piece of glass to flex and crack.
So when you try to remove a large piece of glass, it then breaks into a hundred tiny pieces of glass and you're screwed even more.

demonblod said:
Nope. It didn't work. I broke it. I kept using my heatgun, but the stupid adhesive just wouldn't give up. I turned up the heat a little bit, and suddenly a section of the digitizer just blew up into a dull green color. I guess that means I fried the pixels. Even after I burned the digitizer, the adhesive was still very strong. I think this is actually impossible. In order to loosen the adhesive, you would have to achieve a temperature far past the point of damaging the digitizer.
Another concept:
I had MANY small pieces of glass. I kept thinking "I wish I had nice, big pieces of glass. Then this would go so much faster". When I did try to lift a larger chunk of glass, the combined tension of the adhesive over the whole surface area caused the piece of glass to flex and crack.
So when you try to remove a large piece of glass, it then breaks into a hundred tiny pieces of glass and you're screwed even more.
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Exactly wat happened to me.....so u gettn a new digitizer or just a whole new phone?
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Cheap Screen,is it good?

Guys i just scratched my screen.I found some cheap replacements for 25eur.
Did someone try them already ?
I think someone asked this question already but i can't find that topic.Thanks.
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yes i asked that very question , the counterparts are okay didn't have a problem with them.
but buy them with front casing , it's hard to glue them back together , sometimes they don't fit completely due to the residue you probably missed on the front casing some parts of it become higher than the other parts which really bothered me.
If you're going to buy it glass only , be really careful.
Counterparts are not so scratch resistant as the originals.
One wrong move with the razor blade and it's scratched for good.
You would need a heatgun or blowdryer. I used blowdryer.
After heat treatment the original digitizer stops working for some reason.
So you're stuck with the replacement.
Don't ever remove the front screen protector layer before finishing up the work.
If you don't have double sided tape then use a flexible adhesive like shoe glue but i highly recommend double sided tape. I didn't have beautiful results with shoe glue... It bonded allright but i screwed up the casing with the excess glue i tried to remove.
Also , dust is a real problem. Everytime i did it there was some dust in it. I hated it.
You need an air compressor pistol to work it out.
Blowdryer always leaves some in.
And there's the issue of 4 capacitive keys and their backlight.
If you kill the ribbon that's blocking the light out of the screen , the screen is going to be lit up like christmas and you won't be able to see anything.
If you kill that tape , be sure to replace it with a reflective tape.
Take it from someone who knows , don't lose the crystal things that focus the light to the keys. Otherwise you won't be able to even look at the screen. those leds are really bright...
All in all i did it , but wasn't satisfied with the results went to ebay and bought it with frame.
Now , i'm quite happy...
Hope , i helped.
Cheers!

Thank you for your post, it's great!I will order one with frame then.It's too risky to try to replace it with one without frame because if I don't do it right, i will need to wait a lot for another one (Serbia sucks when it comes to buying stuff online ) .Once again thank you so much for your info.
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No problem at all.
If you have a problem changing it , i can always guide you through it.
Though it's fairly simple with a frame.
Don't order them seperate.
Just don't apply force and you should be fine.