I have had the same plaid/checker board. even split between partial connection and damaged connectors on the mother board. Picked at one connector on a phone with my finger nail and it fell off the board. It is one more reason i hate apple i any thing.
+1 to the possible defective screen. Also it is entirely possible there was other damage done to the phone when the screen got broke. I have had a overly high failure rate on the 5 line of iphones. Esp the 5c. As for cheap copies they are in most cases oem and not after market. Glass for phones can be oem or after market. Now there are 100% fake/mock up lcds out there that look real but are nothing more than glass plastic and paint with salvaged ribbons from real lcd parts. You have a 50 50 chance between damaged board and bad part when you have problems with a lcd after replacement.
Don't waste time on iphone glass only repairs cost savings is only a few bucks. on galaxy phones have at it. Explain to your customer the glass only repair is a small gamble to save allot of money. But that you will not say that you can do it with 100% certainty and that they may have to go with the full lcd in the end. Do not lie to them tell them how many repairs you did this way and how many of those required the lcd in the end. The customer will always take the risk and accept the potential for full assembly replacement 99% of the time any how. Truth is and i do not care how many repair techs say other wise no one can do glass only repairs with zero failures. To many variables in how good the glue job is under the lcd. A void under the lcd in the wrong place will result in a busted lcd with no fault on the part of the tech. I had a s4 going smooth as silk got half way done and lcd broke about 3/4 the way down do to a void in the glue behind the lcd. Yeh the customer was upset but understood that there...
It looked quite easy to me. BTW i don't think there was any glue on the front. It looks like it is built like say the galaxy s2 with the front lcd assembly snapped in to the back. Meaning calling it a mid frame is not all that accurate. The mid frame would be the bezel of a s3 s4 etc. Where as on this you have back/battery cover and the outer back glass. Which seems to basically be only edged glued. I know what they did to break the glass on the front. They tried to pull it apart s5 style not thinking there was screws holding it in can we say a oh crap moment :p
Funny people should mention the idea of making boards more modular to upgrade the phone. I am in the early thinking it out stages of designing a phone and tablet line that is 100% user serviceable and highly rugedized.
Things the phone and tablet will not be. silly stupid overly thin. Glass and digitizer will be 1 part and lcd another. Switches charger etc will be connected more old school plastic connector to pins and they will not be blister buttons but micro switches. The cpu ram etc will be the fastest possible with the largest amount possible. I seen that some dev boards have of all things sata controllers. 1tb ssd any one?
while thicker than average by a good bit it will be worth it. As my end game plan for the phone and tablet is gaming emulation and android specific games etc. Ill post more later on as i move along
Yeh i seen that 2. Not only that the fan is sucking in hot air from inside the case. Who here as built a custom pc and set their hsf fan up like that raise your hands? what no one why is that ill answer for all who built a pc. Your cpu is the hottest component on the system. It needs the coolest air possible to cool it. You blow air in to the heat sink not pull air in. When you pull air in your pulling hot air over the fins. Inside a computer case abiant tempreture can hit 100+f this will mean you loose 100 f cooling right off the top. Aim that sucker blowing in the xbox one has external access for the fan why not use it instead of a exhaust. it shoul be a intake. It should also have a grill and filter not a cutsie louver. Wheres my diagonal cutters and bounce... Its modding time.
ebay is going to have the most options for any phone tablet etc parts. Look for your model number (general tip) do not just look for as a example samsung s3 mini glass there are variants based on carrier. So make sure your buying a kindle fire 8.9 and not a hdx part. I think in the 8.9 hds there are 2 variants i know there are 2 storage configs. So make sure you get the right part.
First link on ebay search kindle fire hd 8.9 hdmi port (has both ports) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kindle-fire-HD-8... 25 bucks (note i have not used this seller previously and do not in any way support him/her or say to not buy from him/her This is only a example link showing average cost) This likely is not the best deal it is 28 ship with the 3 shipping tacked on.
It looked quite easy to me. BTW i don't think there was any glue on the front. It looks like it is built like say the galaxy s2 with the front lcd assembly snapped in to the back. Meaning calling it a mid frame is not all that accurate. The mid frame would be the bezel of a s3 s4 etc. Where as on this you have back/battery cover and the outer back glass. Which seems to basically be only edged glued. I know what they did to break the glass on the front. They tried to pull it apart s5 style not thinking there was screws holding it in can we say a oh crap moment :p
Funny people should mention the idea of making boards more modular to upgrade the phone. I am in the early thinking it out stages of designing a phone and tablet line that is 100% user serviceable and highly rugedized.
Things the phone and tablet will not be. silly stupid overly thin. Glass and digitizer will be 1 part and lcd another. Switches charger etc will be connected more old school plastic connector to pins and they will not be blister buttons but micro switches. The cpu ram etc will be the fastest possible with the largest amount possible. I seen that some dev boards have of all things sata controllers. 1tb ssd any one?
while thicker than average by a good bit it will be worth it. As my end game plan for the phone and tablet is gaming emulation and android specific games etc. Ill post more later on as i move along
Yeh i seen that 2. Not only that the fan is sucking in hot air from inside the case. Who here as built a custom pc and set their hsf fan up like that raise your hands? what no one why is that ill answer for all who built a pc. Your cpu is the hottest component on the system. It needs the coolest air possible to cool it. You blow air in to the heat sink not pull air in. When you pull air in your pulling hot air over the fins. Inside a computer case abiant tempreture can hit 100+f this will mean you loose 100 f cooling right off the top. Aim that sucker blowing in the xbox one has external access for the fan why not use it instead of a exhaust. it shoul be a intake. It should also have a grill and filter not a cutsie louver. Wheres my diagonal cutters and bounce... Its modding time.
ebay is going to have the most options for any phone tablet etc parts. Look for your model number (general tip) do not just look for as a example samsung s3 mini glass there are variants based on carrier. So make sure your buying a kindle fire 8.9 and not a hdx part. I think in the 8.9 hds there are 2 variants i know there are 2 storage configs. So make sure you get the right part.
First link on ebay search kindle fire hd 8.9 hdmi port (has both ports) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kindle-fire-HD-8... 25 bucks (note i have not used this seller previously and do not in any way support him/her or say to not buy from him/her This is only a example link showing average cost) This likely is not the best deal it is 28 ship with the 3 shipping tacked on.