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Screen Repair?

Hello everyone.
Just bought a Nexus 5 off somebody on craigslist, one big issue. Broken digitizer (I did know this when I bought it). Glass itself is mint, not even a scratch. However, the digitizer is all kinds of f***ed up, and the touch does not work. Phone itself works fine, I can confirm.
Has anybody sent their Nexus 5 in to LG recently for screen repair? If so how much was it? It would be $10 to send it in and either get it fixed or not, so I'm wary about sending it in without knowing a price. Anybody know? I'm guessing $100-$150 area, friend could do it for me with just the parts but obviously I'd prefer LG to do it. Just wondering.
Thanks!

iDylan1357 said:
Hello everyone.
Just bought a Nexus 5 off somebody on craigslist, one big issue. Broken digitizer (I did know this when I bought it). Glass itself is mint, not even a scratch. However, the digitizer is all kinds of f***ed up, and the touch does not work. Phone itself works fine, I can confirm.
Has anybody sent their Nexus 5 in to LG recently for screen repair? If so how much was it? It would be $10 to send it in and either get it fixed or not, so I'm wary about sending it in without knowing a price. Anybody know? I'm guessing $100-$150 area, friend could do it for me with just the parts but obviously I'd prefer LG to do it. Just wondering.
Thanks!
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Call a service center for an estimate, but i guess 100-150 USD will not be sufficient for the part plus assembly.

Do lg instead. I bought a screen from ebay and the screen didn't even work correctly. It didn't compared to the original screen. It cost me 150 for that third party screen replacement. I heard that's the price for an OFFICIAL screen from lg as well. That's what I'm planning on doing next.
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gee2012 said:
Call a service center for an estimate, but i guess 100-150 USD will not be sufficient for the part plus assembly.
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idk, I've heard it's $146 some places, $100 others. They don't give out estimates, it has to be sent in (odd).

iDylan1357 said:
idk, I've heard it's $146 some places, $100 others. They don't give out estimates, it has to be sent in (odd).
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As stated above make sure they`re talking about a original LG screen and not some cheap Chinese knockoff.

I replaced the screen my self ..It cost me 135 on eBay. What is nice is that the screen comes with the housing and buttons and pretty much all you do is drop the pieces into the new housing. Look up a few tutorials to see how its done. Also bought a few tools so all in all it was $150.
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broken digitizer..buy new or try to fix?

I broke my screen and the digitizer is broken too because it doesnt respond to touch either. My gf broke her nexus7 1st gen and we bought a digitizer for it too off amazon and i had it almost back together but i pushed too hard and broke it. So im scared to spend the $100+ on a digitizer to break it or just buy a new one for $350. Im using my old N4 right now and it still runs great but i miss my N5. Im also thinking google might release a new phone this fall..whether its part of that silver program or another nexus. I dont know what to do.

I broke the screen and digitizer on my N4 then bought a 16gb N5, broke that screen then just bought a new N5 but this time a 32gb. But I think there both worth repairing.
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Sent it to LG for repair. It'll cost you $160.

Hi,
Just wanted to let you know I recently replaced my screen+lcd on my Nexus 5.
I used this video : http://youtu.be/OPuCmfhzgbg
Although I have experience in replacing screens before by no means I would consider this hard for anyone who can follow the video. Watch it in it's entirety first.
Hardest part IMO is switching all the small pieces from the old screen/frame assembly to the new one.
Good Luck
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Just wanted to update incase anyone comes across this in the future...I bout the screen and case on amazon for $105 or so and i followed the above video and now my nexus is as good as new again. Prob took me half hour or so. Easy job. Thanks again!

If you don't want it, just send it to me and I'll pay to have it fixed for myself. Its $100. That's not going to kill you. Make sure you buy it with the frame or it'll be a pain to fix.
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Chinese screen replacement

Have anyone ordered screen like this?
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/For-...-Assembly-tools-Free-shipping/2036103752.html
It's much cheaper than original ones. But what's the quality of these?

ccnky said:
Have anyone ordered screen like this?
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/For-...-Assembly-tools-Free-shipping/2036103752.html
It's much cheaper than original ones. But what's the quality of these?
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Better off getting one with lcd. You will never separate the old one with out destroying it.
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It's lcd + digitizer.

After many years of being a cheapskate, I have decided that I will only ever use OEM parts in the future. I have had nothing but problems with Chinese cheap stuff.
Save yourself the hassle and buy an original LG part.

Where Can I find Original LCD ?

Okay topic may not be so clear, so let me explain.
My LG Nexus 5 has fell down to ground from about 3 meters and screen is cracked. I think it is only the glass because even on the worst crack touch screen works great there is no problem with touch screen, but the glass on it is cracked, however even frame had damages. Now I must buy exatcly this : http://www.amazon.com/Replacement-D...pebp=1440720620149&perid=1KKY5MEEXHDG1M4DWTH5
Because the other producs makes mu puke, I just can't trust them, you know, quality, dead pixels. I'm far away from the idea of buying another brand lcd screen. That link I've send is of the link original LG product. At least seller is LG.
But unfortunately I don't live in merica so amazon is very un-friendly website for non-merican fella.
I have around 100 order on aliexpress, that is a good shopping site too at least they send most of the producs with free shipping (of course product include shipping cost but amazon does not even send it to TURKEY ! they don't even let me afford the shipping cost amazon only says : this shipping address is invalid bla bla and some crap.) But there is so many fake sellers in aliexpress. I find a lcd screen which costs 52$, And I 've send a message about "if it is original or not" title was something like %100 Original LCD Screen for LG NEXUS 5 (for lg nexus 5 , not original lg lcd for lg nexus 5.....) my English might be bad, but not bad as to get scammed. And the answer was "original" well I'm definitely not satisfied that answer.
So just help me here, Nexus 5 is my love, it turns me on when I look her... But now she is ugly as pig Just help me to find original LG LCD screen with free or cheap shipping to TURKEY.
Regards, Thanks in advance
and forgive my damn poor english.

You could try checking some European Amazon websites such as Amazon UK, Amazon DE. They might be able to provide shipping (though it won't be free).

Thanks for reply,
And I've checked amazon UK. There weren't any lg brand LCD display. But in the amazon.de I've found one, which is seller was also LG, but cost is 95€!... I didn't even check shipping cost... Well brand new LG Nexus 5 is 260$....
I don't wanna end up in aliexpress which looking for another brand... Because I've already did it and feedbacks was terrible, first of all, almost all of them got screen with dead pixels. And most of them says there is a problem about corners, sensors...
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Conixcit said:
Thanks for reply,
And I've checked amazon UK. There weren't any lg brand LCD display. But in the amazon.de I've found one, which is seller was also LG, but cost is 95€!... I didn't even check shipping cost... Well brand new LG Nexus 5 is 260$....
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LG is probably the only choice you'll have to be assured that it's genuine.

Just swapped mine out yesterday. Damn near perfect. Led is brighter, seems like its missing a filter or something under the glass. Light bleed was worse on my OEM lcd. $50 got me the lcd + assembly. My old assembly was cracked by all buttons and sim card. Win win. Www.gadgetfix.com
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*system error* said:
Just swapped mine out yesterday. Damn near perfect. Led is brighter, seems like its missing a filter or something under the glass. Light bleed was worse on my OEM lcd. $50 got me the lcd + assembly. My old assembly was cracked by all buttons and sim card. Win win. Www.gadgetfix.com
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Hell yes ! I guess I gotta check for alternatives, because LG LCD is too expensive, so maybe others who changed their screen before can share their thoughts about whatever they bought. , There is still one more week to my payday, I will be looking for alternatives untill that day.
And the product you got in my list.
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Well, here is another question which is really disturbing me. You know, original nexus 5 has 1920x1080 445ppi screen with Gorilla Glass 3, I really don't think there are any seller selling 445 ppi.. I'm over Gorilla, I can accept exceptions but Im afraid they gonna send me something like 300ppi , I've never been so confused for my entire life, because feedbacks are terrible.
And, that "LG" seller on amazon, turns out fake seller... Thanks to feedbacks...
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Conixcit said:
Well, here is another question which is really disturbing me. You know, original nexus 5 has 1920x1080 445ppi screen with Gorilla Glass 3, I really don't think there are any seller selling 445 ppi.. I'm over Gorilla, I can accept exceptions but Im afraid they gonna send me something like 300ppi , I've never been so confused for my entire life, because feedbacks are terrible.
And, that "LG" seller on amazon, turns out fake seller... Thanks to feedbacks...
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If it's 1920x1080, then it's definitely 445PPI.
PPI depends ONLY on resolution and screen size. So if system reports full hd, then it's all good.
PPI = ( √(width² + height²) ) / screen size
PPI = ( √(1920² + 1080²) ) / 4.95 = 2203 / 4.95 = 445.0505
As for Gorilla, well this is kinda tricky, you never know if it has it when you are buying non-OEM screen assembly.

Here is what happened since then.
Then I had scracty screen. A month ago I have dropped my nexus 5 again and screen was totally gone. I had alike thread in reddit too and they suggested me to go with etradesupply. It was 50$ + 30$ shipping cost for me. Still, I could pay for my lovely N5, -because I knew If I wanted to go cheaper way, Actually there was 30$ products on aliexpress with some good feedback- long story short I got my screen from etradesupply It arrived in 3 day -that was horrible, It scared me a liitle bit than I said : This is where my 30$ went- came in great condition very good packing. Screen quality rocks but one problem! It drains almost 2 maybe 2.5 time more than the original one. Colors are perfect but I do not know what to do with this consuming problem. Other than that I would totally recommend the LCD I got.

I'm not sure why the LCD would drain the battery so quickly. I'd look for some other issue because I have replaced Nexus 5 screens using replacements from Aliexpress and none of them caused the battery to drain any faster than the original screen.

Where did you purchase your screen replacement?

Need to replace my cracked screen. Been looking on Ebay and I'm noticing the average price for screen+digitizer
+frame is $150...seems a bit high. Am I missing something or are there cheaper alternatives.
Thank you
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paerts4repair.com

Check aliexpress.com
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try taobao or aliexpress
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AliExpress should have a bunch...

Aliexpress. Any good?
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Sstparts.com is where my work sources, we have had good luck with them.

With screens... You get what you pay for. I would highly suggest shopping around in the average price range that they are selling for. The nexus 6 screens are still around $140 to $150 and the phone is older. So it's a fair price.
Go too cheap, you get a crap product most times.
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graydiggy said:
With screens... You get what you pay for. I would highly suggest shopping around in the average price range that they are selling for. The nexus 6 screens are still around $140 to $150 and the phone is older. So it's a fair price.
Go too cheap, you get a crap product most times.
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At the end of the day how do you truly know that anyone else doesn't source the screen from the same Chinese knockoff factory as just getting it directly from that same factory. There's another thread on sourcing batteries and it's the same problem. Claims of "oem" quickly disappear when you have product in hand....
What I WOULD like to know why the heck the 6p screens are so expensive. Even as eBay fakes or Aliexpress... The price hovers around $150
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Oh. We all know you won't get OEM. That's almost impossible. But... If it's less than let's say $125, I'll likely pass it up. (some circumstances may be involved to sway my decision) From my experience, cheap means cheap. I've always had better products going with products that sell for the average price or slightly above.
The reason they are expensive is because they are good products. Just because it's not OEM doesn't mean it's not good. Chinese doesn't mean bad product either. I wish people would drop that. They are one of the world's leaders in manufacturing technology. They can have decent stuff. And they do.
To touch on the battery thread. Most people shoot for those $10 batteries. Those are cheap and will perform like a cheap battery. But if you go for the ones in the mid 20s, you usually get much better quality and proper temperature sensing. Usually.
In the end, it's your choice. Are you willing to risk your device and possibly your safety by going the cheap route?and that's perfectly fine if you do. I've done it. Or are you willing to fork over a little more for a better chance at a more reliable products? I find that balance gives me the best results.
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And this is from my experience as a phone repair technician. Just to be clear.
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Just wanted to mention that Huawei is still doing screen replacements for $163.46 total. I bought a Nexus 6p with a smashed digitizer and bent aluminum frame and sent it in. They replaced the screen and digitizer and replaced the aluminum while they were at it! Turnaround from shipping to receiving was exactly one week.

jamiphar said:
Just wanted to mention that Huawei is still doing screen replacements for $163.46 total. I bought a Nexus 6p with a smashed digitizer and bent aluminum frame and sent it in. They replaced the screen and digitizer and replaced the aluminum while they were at it! Turnaround from shipping to receiving was exactly one week.
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You have a link for this?
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shiz222 said:
You have a link for this?
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You need to call or chat with Huawei tech support and tell them you need to buy a screen replacement. Once you give them the details, they send you an email and a link where you can purchase the service. Once that's all done, they send you a label and you're ready to go.

i bought a cheap 5X screen to replace mine on my old phone after water damage, it ended up ruining my cell signal, dont cheap out.

Dadud said:
i bought a cheap 5X screen to replace mine on my old phone after water damage, it ended up ruining my cell signal, dont cheap out.
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That sounds more like the water damage you had ruined your cell signal. A few connectors in your phone probably started corroding.

I bought this one yesterday:
https://es.aliexpress.com/item/For-...1cffe83fb45a2dc-1488242340216-03264-Ee2JQzjUz

I find it ridiculous that most other screens of similar size are under 100 bucks off ebay but ours average at $150. Regardless if it's off ebay or Aliexpress or Amazon
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For what it's worth the Huawei tech I talked to said that Huawei doesn't sell the OEM screens to anyone else. It seems sending the phone into Huawei is the best way to ensure an OEM-quality screen is installed.
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jamiphar said:
For what it's worth the Huawei tech I talked to said that Huawei doesn't sell the OEM screens to anyone else. It seems sending the phone into Huawei is the best way to ensure an OEM-quality screen is installed.
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Yea my point exactly. If it's 150 for a ****ty Chinese knockoff might as well spend 163.xx for oem
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I bought mine from eBay , 95€ and I'm good. Just a warning. The new screen doesn't come with the vibration motor nor the volume and power buttons. Be careful when removing those , my volume down cable broke , so I had to replace it , but I already had everything glued in. Took it to a repair store and they fixed it for 30€ , so yeh , be careful. Buttons cost 3$ or so , but the backglass often shatters when removed , so 10 more dollars for the back glass , plus the shipping , turns out to be pretty expensive. Careful. Also top earpiece is tricky to remove , is sealed with glue and everything pops out but it has a copper cable in it, if that rip off , you messed up. Careful with usb board , it has some contacts underneath , you got to do it perfectly , otherwise , no charging.
Best of luck boy ! Tell me the results at the end !