Hello community!
A friend of mine who works in the security industry here has recently given me a phone he's found during one of his rounds - a Galaxy S2! Since I never have owned a smartphone, I was very excited to recieve such a gift and tinker around with it cguru:
However, upon further inspection of the phone the outer glass display is severely cracked (I peeled off a small amount of shards) and I would presume the digitizer is broken since there is no display (although everything else seems to be in running order!)
Naturally I wanted to remedy the situation, so I found this great article on the XDA forums on how to replace the screen, complete with photos!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1253969
I suppose my question in the end is has any other user here attempted to try such, and if they're willing to share their experiences and offer any tips on what to look out for, and what to expect. Trying to repair locally seems to exceed $150+, so I may purchase a replacement OEM part(s) off of eBay and see what I can do from there.
A friend of mine who works in the security industry here has recently given me a phone he's found during one of his rounds - a Galaxy S2! Since I never have owned a smartphone, I was very excited to recieve such a gift and tinker around with it cguru:
However, upon further inspection of the phone the outer glass display is severely cracked (I peeled off a small amount of shards) and I would presume the digitizer is broken since there is no display (although everything else seems to be in running order!)
Naturally I wanted to remedy the situation, so I found this great article on the XDA forums on how to replace the screen, complete with photos!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1253969
I suppose my question in the end is has any other user here attempted to try such, and if they're willing to share their experiences and offer any tips on what to look out for, and what to expect. Trying to repair locally seems to exceed $150+, so I may purchase a replacement OEM part(s) off of eBay and see what I can do from there.