Broken Screen / Shattered Glass - good news

wow dude good job. i would've never been so brave as to replace a screen like that myself haha. i guess that's why when i get mine (hopefully soon!) im going to get insurance!

I'd do the same with my phone, but I have a jacked up Bezel and the softouch around the battery door is scratched off(it's red underneath) so I'm gonna pay the deductable and get a new EVO.

How long had you had it before the screen shattered?

The battery door is red? Hmmm I wonder if they originally planned to make the phone red and black then?

My question is did you have a screen protector or case on your phone. Seems like all the sob stories have come from people who have naked EVOs. I want to see someone's phone who has hit the floor or cement with a case and screen protector on it.

Slick1020 said:

My question is did you have a screen protector or case on your phone. Seems like all the sob stories have come from people who have naked EVOs. I want to see someone's phone who has hit the floor or cement with a case and screen protector on it.

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Not sure if you finished reading his post before you asked the question but, he did say it had the BB case and a Zagg protector on the screen. Crazy that your phone survived getting ran over a few times!

What do you use for adhesive to afix the screen to the phone out of curiosity?

I have to question the authenticity of the OP's story. You claim that this phone fell off your car bumper and got ran over by several cars on a busy highway? If that's true, who would have seen the phone and retrieved it? How would they retrieve it with all the cars zooming by? How did they know where to return the dead phone?

And you're telling me that the only thing that was damaged was the screen? The camera lens wasn't cracked? The rest of the phone (mainly plastic) was not crushed?

A car weighs on average 3000 lbs. that's 750lb per tire. I'm pretty sure 750 lb on your phone will render it completely useless. Especially if front and back wheels hit it. Esp if multiple cars ran over it. Esp if it was tossed around from the impact of being run over.

Sounds to me more like you dropped your phone and the screen cracked

It will be interesting to get these answers to our questions.....IF we ever do.

Do you mind posting the procedure you followed to fix the screen? Any links where you bought the stuff from? ebay?

Interesting ebay listing. I wonder if those came from the bricked phones from the first OTA update.

After this story and the one where the guy hit a fence and bent his EVO and it still worked, it reinforces my own feeling that this is one tough phone.

way2success said:

Do you mind posting the procedure you followed to fix the screen?

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HTC Evo 4G Repair Manual - iFixit
That's how you take it all apart and change out whatever

Thank you ABV for answering my question. I felt so left out for a second there.
I was wondering about the insurance because they usually will not budge on the 30 day policy. You lucked out!

You can add it later, you just can't use it for a period of time. I think it's 30 days.

Good to know but for $100 on the insurance I would of probably gone that route...

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ScorpDX said:

HTC Evo 4G Repair Manual - iFixit
That's how you take it all apart and change out whatever

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ABV said:

This is where I got it from. I offered him $79 and got it. It was risky too, he had zero feedback!

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Thanks! Since I don't have the insurance on my 2 EVO's, this info always helps! Haven't had any issues yet with my phone it's been more than 6 weeks now. The hardware issues, if at all, will be taken care of HTC(screen seperation, USB port) so not worried about that.

NicksGarage said:

After this story and the one where the guy hit a fence and bent his EVO and it still worked, it reinforces my own feeling that this is one tough phone.

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Our EVO's have a silicon/plastic case from Ebay. One of my EVO's fell on a concrete floor from 3 feet and my heart skipped a beat but it's absolutely fine Looks shinny but strong!

Slick1020 said:

My question is did you have a screen protector or case on your phone. Seems like all the sob stories have come from people who have naked EVOs. I want to see someone's phone who has hit the floor or cement with a case and screen protector on it.

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I dropped my evo three weeks ago with a hard case and screen protector on it and shattered the phone and cracked the case! Now granted, it wasn't an expensive case. I think I payed $7 for it online, so it wasn't the toughest of materials...

Anyways, I was taking it out of my pocket and had a super-clumsy moment, fumbled the phone, juggled it mid-air (to build up momentum obviously), and then spiked it spectacularly into a cement sidewalk. Cracked glass under the screen protector, but the screen still worked, so I still had a functional phone, just not a pretty or sturdy one.

I *thought* I had asurion insurance, but when I called them to file a claim I found out that the insurance had somehow managed NOT to be added to my account when I called to set it up within the first 30 days. I then spent days and days, making about 7 different calls to both companies to get my phone replaced. I talked to asurion, then sprint, then asurion, then sprint, and that was just to get the insurance added as it should have been originally. Then back to asurion because my record showed the insurance had been added AFTER the accident, then back to Sprint to change the insurance added date to the correct date it SHOULD have been in June... Then to file my claim... then to sign my affidavit... what a nightmare, but they did give me what I wanted in the end.

I finally got my replacement yesterday (I cracked the screen on the 19th of August). I have pictures on my computer at home of the old cracked Evo and the new one, but not here at work. Will post online when I get home, if I remember. Also interesting to have the two side by side since I can compare my old 002 Epson screen model with my new 003 Novatec screen. Definitely a noticable difference in hue, and slightly in contrast though I couldn't say which is better or preferable.

Slick1020 said:

My question is did you have a screen protector or case on your phone. Seems like all the sob stories have come from people who have naked EVOs. I want to see someone's phone who has hit the floor or cement with a case and screen protector on it.

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Mine dropped 5.5 feet on to concrete and with NO damage at all. Mine has a Zagg screen protector and a tpu case on it. I was nervous picking it up but was thrilled to see that it looked and functioned perfect.

I think it might just be me... but if it's something expensive, mine or someone else's, and I see it just get dominated, I start cackling.... I think I just love carnage too much. Like three days ago, I dominated my $250 model rc heli, I was just laughing when I heard it slam into the ground, and was just kind of "meh" when I saw I only warped the main rotar shaft. It would have been much more spectacular had it been in pieces!

I've dropped my Evo out of my pants many times... I just bend down without breaking conversation casually as if nothing happened... I would get excited if I saw I dominated my screen though! First thing I'd say is, "DAAAMAAAAGE!", followed with, "Oh well.", and stuffing it in my pocket.