So, once again (after the 2nd time it happened so easily, I decided to just live with it for a while), I managed to screw up my phone with water damage to the LCD display... This is the 2nd HTC Desire G2 I've done this to, and neither phone was more than 3 months old at the time - bad luck!!!
I finally decided it was too bad to live with and since the warranty does not cover water damage, I'm not entitled for another upgrade for a while from my carrier, and paying for a new phone or a professional repair are a bit out of my reach these days - I figured: I'm pretty handy, why not try to fix it myself?
So I did. Bought a replacement part on Ebay, and installed the new LCD today. Works great, except... that I did a really dumb thing. Seems there's some kind of oily liquid / gel between the lcd and the digitizer touch screen, and the first time I took the phone apart (before realizing I had been sent the wrong part, and had to put it back together again and wait for the right part), I did not expect that to be there, and accidentally got a finger print on it.
Anyway - long story short, I didn't think the liquid did anything but act as an adhesive to make sure the lcd had full contact with the glass, so I cleaned it up and replaced it with some WD40 (hey - I SAID it was stupid...). Now the screen works great, but looks like there's one of those polarizing anti-glare tints on the inside of the glass. I guess whatever was there before refracted the light differently.
Any ideas how I can replace that with the correct substance? I'll even buy a new digitizer touch screen if I knew that it came with that on it already - what do I do?????
A friend I consulted seems to think it's some sort of optical gel, which makes a lot of sense, but how / where do I replace that?! All my google research has come up with a lot of nothing.
Please help me. If there's anybody reading this who fixes these for a living and knows what it is, how to get it, or what to do about this - please let me know!
Thanks.
I finally decided it was too bad to live with and since the warranty does not cover water damage, I'm not entitled for another upgrade for a while from my carrier, and paying for a new phone or a professional repair are a bit out of my reach these days - I figured: I'm pretty handy, why not try to fix it myself?
So I did. Bought a replacement part on Ebay, and installed the new LCD today. Works great, except... that I did a really dumb thing. Seems there's some kind of oily liquid / gel between the lcd and the digitizer touch screen, and the first time I took the phone apart (before realizing I had been sent the wrong part, and had to put it back together again and wait for the right part), I did not expect that to be there, and accidentally got a finger print on it.
Anyway - long story short, I didn't think the liquid did anything but act as an adhesive to make sure the lcd had full contact with the glass, so I cleaned it up and replaced it with some WD40 (hey - I SAID it was stupid...). Now the screen works great, but looks like there's one of those polarizing anti-glare tints on the inside of the glass. I guess whatever was there before refracted the light differently.
Any ideas how I can replace that with the correct substance? I'll even buy a new digitizer touch screen if I knew that it came with that on it already - what do I do?????
A friend I consulted seems to think it's some sort of optical gel, which makes a lot of sense, but how / where do I replace that?! All my google research has come up with a lot of nothing.
Please help me. If there's anybody reading this who fixes these for a living and knows what it is, how to get it, or what to do about this - please let me know!
Thanks.