Well I started repairing my trusty DHD yesterday. The actual disassembly is quite easy as most of it it held together with small torx screws whilst certain things like the speaker, receiver & vibrator are just held in and pop out easily. Now the hard thing is the actual removal of the front screen/digitizer. It's held on with some really sticky glue/tape, but with a guitar pick once you get in its fairly easy. The bit that went wrong it trying to get the old ribbon out of the back on the LCD screen. The LCD screen is held in with some mighty tough tape. After heating it up with a hairdryer it finally came out, and in one piece but on trying the new digitizer connected up to the LCD and motherboard the LCD was no good. It did work but had vertical lines over it so no good. I didn't expect anything less really. So new LCD ordered and hopefully all will good. Putting the LCD back into the metal chassis is easy mind, just have to stick it back in. Advice I would give it don't bother just replacing the glass/digitizer, replace the whole display. There's no way i can see how you can get the LCD out without damaging it. If it was designed better you could just pop out the digitizer ribbon and feed the new one in underneath the LCD screen. Anyway that's all for now. Fecking hate using the old Nokia N70.
