This is actually my first time doing this process from start to finish. Hoping to get really good at this and do some cool mods with it in the future! Refox FM-40 All-In-One Machine : bit.ly/4dxHWXD
Apple might do it by placing small chip containing the glass serial number on the frame of the glass and using some sort of nfc or contacts point to communicate with the motherboard. But the public could still desolder and resolder the chip onto the new glass though
@@surelyyeahI highly doubt you could do this with Samsung back in the day Those curved screens are a big hindrance and it also what made them expensive
@@omonighoprogressoghenetejiri i was referring to s7edge so yeah you probably right😂 i switched to iphone afyer that one so i dont know samsung prices anymore
Bit of safety warning: That N95 mask doesn’t protect against fumes, only particulates If that glue remover is actually of concern, you’d be much better off ventilating the area with fresh air Stay safe brother👊
@@PhoneRepairGuru if you do this often, build a small fume hood like they use in a chemistry lab. a box with one side open with some fans sucking the air to blow it outside
A few years ago I had a neighbor fully specialized in that method. He separated the glas with a laser machine and used an oven to harden an adhesive. Pretty wild, but he gave up ob his business. I always appreciated to keep the original quality of the screens.
There's something absolutely magical about seeing a naked OLED display. The closest you'll see in day to day life is in folding devices. I'm really happy to see you finally getting in on this!
No, there's a lot of additional layer of protection over the OLED screen on a folding device and even a layer of real glass. It's just still flexible too
It’s wild to think, I’ve been watching your content for over a year and learned so much. And now finally released my first iPhone repair video! Thank you and keep up the good work 🎉
Dropped you a sub and watched the video, great work for your first crack at it, but one suggestion would be to be a little more specific in the title of what the repair is for, might help to get some more eyes on your content! 🤌🏻
Indian here we have been doing this with every possible phone to save the original displays just replacing the glass shocked to see you guys coming across this just now
@@devisals guys ever visit Indian try to visit a local big market you for.mobile repair and have indian guy with you , you will be saving alot it's a promise
I’m not a native English speaker but I’ve always thought the “screen” was the glass, and what’s below was the display. Naturally speaking we are used to refer to “screen” as the whole screen-display assembly, but it was a bit funny hearing him saying that he was going to replace the glass but not the screen
Also, I’ve come to assume the word screen means some kind of light protection, like the screen door that is used to keep bugs out (right? We don’t have tons in my hometown so not sure)
I'm also non-native speaker, I think it's the same case as "wheels" and "tires" (or tyres) in car terms. Wheels are supposed to consist of rim and tire. But a lot of people refer rim as wheel and "changing tire" means changing the whole rim and tire, not just the rubber part.
@@NurAdinugraha No changing the tyre would mean changing the rubber, not the whole wheel. The only time changing the tyre would be the whole thing would be on racing cars such as F1
That’s a pretty nerve wrecking repair. I’ve replaced glass on a few phones before and every time your booty is puckered up the entire time hoping you didn’t damage the screen itself lol 😂
In india we've been doing this since like Galaxy S2/S3 days. I've done so many repairs on my own phones without these fancy tools/machines. I used a hair dryer and a blade to gently remove the glass, IPA to clean the glue off, LOCA and manual alignment for gluing and a nail polish UV light to set the glue.
I don't know if PRG will see this comment but I myself am really interested in the refurbishment of devices and screens. I watch a lot of videos from Rewa Tech and in one of their videos of glass replacement, they explicitly mentioned not to press the glass/screen when aligning the glass on the screen in the mold as you did at 7:34. They even showed that when you press the glass and screen before putting it in the machine, it came out with bubbles in it even after debubbling and lamination. If you just place the glass on top, properly aligning it, it will come out without any bubbles. Rewa Tech has really good tutorials.
I'm so glad you did a video on this! I remember a few years ago i stumbled upon a channel called ECDIY (shoutouts to them) who started making advancements in this field (or at least tried to popularize them) by hand, and I always wished this kind of repair would take off, so I'm really glad you could popularize it for a big audience! It's cool to see that nowadays, whole machines exist to assist with these repairs. If we can standardize and shorten this whole process someday, we could revolutionize phone display repair One thing to remember is that the new glass probably wont be as strong as the old one, so its good to use a screen protector once it's replaced 👍
I am from India and, I saved my iPhone 15 Pro’s screen by this method in our local market. Surprisingly it costed me only 2999 Indian rupees which is 36 US Dollars..😊
@@KawaiiGames873 in some cars windshield needs to be replaced by an authorised person because it needs to be programmed to the car. So if cars can do that why Apple can't do that. Don't forget that Apple is a company that serialize anything
Amazing video. I used to work at a screen refurbishing/tech shop, and, the process doesn't take 6-8 hours. One of our core revenue streams was to get the iPhone from the customer, and refurbish their screen for 50% of the price Apple charges for a screen replacement. It usually was a 45 to 60 minute job, IF and only IF the polarizer layer was damaged while removing the glass and needed to be replaced. If it didnt, we could roll a screen out every 30 minutes. Not sure how long the machine you have in the video takes, but the lamination process on the machine we had usually took 1 minute to complete. The most tedious and delayed part of the process was getting the OCA cleaned off. Still, this was our bread and butter and we had about 100k into machinery and infrastructure. The fact alone that you are being able to do this in your house, is amazing The wire was handled by 2 rollers that moved back and forth while you pushed the hot plate towards the wire, so removing the glass was about 30 to 45 seconds Cleaning was about 15 minutes We had multi layer molds, more like a guide, first layer is a solid aluminium block, then next layer is an aluminum guide sheet, in there we put a rubber block, then another guide sheet, on top of the guide sheet goes the OCA, then another guide sheet, and then the glass on top, in goes to the vacuum press to be fused together. This was about 3 minutes to assemble, and 1 minute for the machine to do it's thing After the glass and the OCA were fused, a different rubber block was installed on the solid aluminium block, then a different guide, for the screen, then another guide, then the glass&OCA assembly. There's a bit of cleaning on the screen here to make it spotless after putting it on the guide. Assembly and cleaning was about 5 minutes. In it goes to the vacuum press for another minute, and that's it, about 25 minutes. If the polarizer was damaged, removing the old one, cleaning, and installing a new one, would add about 25 minutes to the process, but remove the 15 minute cleaning step on the normal process as the new polarizer is already clean. So it's more like adding 10 minutes
Hello friend . After u done pls make sure to put some cold press in between the frame and the oled . Else the frame can fall off a few moths or line will appear from now as u have now has cut off the orginal a glue . Don't need a lot :-) well done
In my country its very common to change only the glass layer It takes like 30 mins Also on android you dont have to take the screen off the device you could do it while the device is working Its like 5$ total If it fails the repair shop replaces the screen using his money
Kudos to you. Not every phones display glass is this harder to replace, also no need of most costly machine. Yes it takes a lot of time and the process needs more skill than a regular repair. I got replaced my Mi11x (poco f3) display glass for around 20 usd in india from a local guy.
Well now that the parts can be used on other phones as long as they aren’t marked as stolen, hopefully this allows repair shops to replace the screen, then fix like 10 of these in one go, and use those for future repairs!
Don’t know why people never seen this before, this is a very popular technique in phone repair shops in Asia. I got my iPad Pro that the glass was cracked and was replaced, it still works perfectly fine.
From pro to pro technicians when you using the mold to line up the glass and screen and have less bubbles after using debubbling machine don’t press the screen every there 7:35 see here what you doing. This is wrong just tap in the middle once that the glass stuck to the screen and then put it into the machine. Then you will have less bubbles or none bubbles after you’ve done it right put the screen under uv light.
I had the glass only replaced on my 13 Pro, was the only option at the time (if doing it without Apple) because 3rd party 120hz iPhone displays weren’t a thing yet
Although this process can save a lot of money, it is also important to note that you have to be very very careful with the OLED panel beneath the glass. The panel itself has a fragile layer that when a wire is cut through too low, it can strip the layer, This damage will keep the actual display intact but will reveal a gold panel underneath. The display itself will still work completely however there will be a gold spot from where you cut too deep. Remember it's always important to go practice on your own on some useless or already broken displays before you attempt this on a much more important or a customer's phone. At the end of the day, it's always better to break a worthless screen in the present so you don't have to deal with issues later on. Side note, if you want easier practice, Apple Watch displays don't really require that much of a setup and are much easier to separate the digitizer from the panel. Also, you won't need a lamination machine for the OCA glue which will be much much more expensive and you can instead just use some Liquid OCA (LOCA) along with a UV curing light. GL y'all!
I know of a business that just deals with screen refurbishment (great business btw). They've good experience and it takes maybe an hour or even less to refurbish a single screen which is worth it. When it's busy the place turns into a money minting machine. And also you can use the wire holder instead of chopping of the fingers.
I've seen where they take it one step further where then ensure that the dust and water seal are back to near factory quality. From what I understand the phones are placed in a depressurizing chamber to ensure that it has a tight seal.
Just did this to my ROG phone 7 bc there is no way to know if there are original displays with same quality. So the technician told me about this process and was the best! Only on screen fingerprint have problems but it's my phone just for gaming so it's a win
I do this at my work The most annoying thing is you can't stick the Glass and LCD 2x, so if you don't have a mount to put the LCD and Glass in 1 job sticking with precision with the LCD, you can't just remove it because it's tilted a little, you might damage the LCD. A lot of the LCDs I work on are android, so the screen size is different for each phone and type and there is no mount that fits, I usually install it with precision using the Frame from the phone itself
A diy method for this is buying just the vaccum and headplate which cost around 30-40$ and then using LOCA so you dont need that 1000$ machine you showed in the video for lamination as loca just needs uv light
Dont push new glass when aplaing to the lcd just push in one corner to fix the glass so it doesnt move in machine if you trap the air betwene glass and oled its hard to remove it
To be honest in vietnam we do this alot because it cheap - the trade of is the replacement glass can be weaker , some place will charge more money for higher quality glass
During relamination, creating a vacuum would make the bubbles bigger and help them want to escape the glass. Creating higher pressure should make it so any remaining small bubbles are forced to be significantly smaller so they’re not visible in the glue. It shouldn’t be making them actually go away. They’re just sealed in.
I loved your video very detailed, I used to refurbish glass back in the day on iPhone 5 that seems pretty easy the iPhone 13 Pro could you do 14 and 15 next
is the glass you replace still a ceramic shield or is it other type of glass and can you compare the refurbished one to a non refurbish screen see how's it look
Just a fact some phone repair shops uses not as strong glass as oem so it is not that strong. So it is more brittle I lost my note 10 lite after changing glass this way when I dropped it again.
I tried this, but on samsung s4 mini, bought glass, wire, using my 3d printer as heated plate, but I don't have this cool machine so I bought LOCA glue, same as OCA but liquid and a bit messy, and everything still work :D
Here in Pakistan all the screen repair shops have these massive machines like one you have there and it takes like an hour or less to repair glass worh 100 percent result every time ..
i used to do this way before the lamination and oca, when bonding the glass to the screen we use a UV glue called LOCA, and we use uv light to cure it. still the skill required to do this is very high not recommend for 1st time DIYers. if you want to learn the LOCA method i suggest practicing on old oleds like the iphone x or xs.
Are there any aftermarket sapphire glasses out there for the iPhone or other phones in general? BC honestly, if there was a way to get a sapphire glass fused to a phone you could make infinitely more durable screens in the process and justify the tedious repair job... I mean surely there are manufacturers in China (or elsewhere) that could custom cut sapphire screens in low quantities. Together with the steel and carbon backplates you showed recently this could make for a super durable iPhone...
My first phone repair completed last week to change the loud speaker and battery. When I separated the screens the glass only seperated and my inexperience didn’t realise. So I cut away all the adhesive until I got to the top edge and noticed the glass coming away from the earpiece notch. Whoops
There is 3 way to repair lcd 1:change the glass like this video 2:change the lcd but the important massage will go up and u can use software to hack into the phone and the phone will think its the original screen kinda like battery too there is battery hack can show the battery health but its not the original battery 3: change the lcd take the chip of the old lcd and copy the old lcd for the true tone function and blower the chip back to new lcd…. In that way u have the truetone and no important massage will go up I like use the 3rd method 😄😄😄 Edit: if im wrong please correct me
Yea, we've been doin this for soo long now here in India. For iPhone 11 Pro it barely cost me 15$ when I got it done a couple of years ago. And it took the guy just an hour.
For newer phones like 13 pro max n so on, replacing the entire screen(authorized apple parts,not 3rd party one like gx n stuff on aliexpress) is costly and usually is the last resort when the display is broken If the display is not broken, then it’s better to just replace the glass and touch sensor if it’s been damaged.
I'm a mobile phone repairs tech and one of the steps I cringed on was when he applied the new glass, if your work space is even a tiny bit dusty, DO NOT (and I repeat) DO NOT PUT THE GLASS IN THE MOLD AND PLACE THE OLED OVER IT If you want the best possible result, place the OLED in the mold (which is what its designed for). Clean it up good, id recommend getting a Green Light Dust Detector as that's gonna help you even more THEN apply the new glass with the OCA glue already on, be careful not to touch the back of the glass with the OCA glue cause that finger print will be permanent and isn't coming away!
This process has many cons too. Personally me and my cousin have gotten just the glass replaced and we'll it fucked up the display. The display started to auto operate and lose touch sensitivity from time to time. So from experience this repair process is not very reliable. Note got the glass replaced on different phones and different repair shops but similar issues with all of them.
You can do this from iphone 12 amd up. Therew kits that they sell on ebay using LOCA instead of OCA glue. LOCA doesnt require the !achine but its pretty much same procedure
Great Video, However you don't need the machine to screen refurbish like you said, you can just use a razor and heta gun and fishing line to remove the hold screen and to glue the new screen on you use not a glass with preinstalled glue, plain glass and apply your own UV activated LOCA glue, and as liquid will naturally force out any bubbles.
This is actually my first time doing this process from start to finish. Hoping to get really good at this and do some cool mods with it in the future!
Refox FM-40 All-In-One Machine : bit.ly/4dxHWXD
First
Why dont you try switching to android?
Nah it's expensive cuz I'm don't buy in usd
I think it will be easy once you start getting used to it
5th
Apple taking notes (they will be serializing the glass too)
pls don't joke about this :/
@@PhoneRepairGuruOk I won't or will I (btw love your videos prg) ❤
@@manojsahu-hr9qeYou will
Apple might do it by placing small chip containing the glass serial number on the frame of the glass and using some sort of nfc or contacts point to communicate with the motherboard. But the public could still desolder and resolder the chip onto the new glass though
@@mastergaming99924 solder to glass right
We used to get training for this back in 2016
Screen refurbishing business is way bigger than we think
@@da-vaz then dont watch nor command david
Makes sense for like a fold phone, I forgot which others cost a lot
@@fndronesamsung around 2016 had like really expensive screens man
@@surelyyeahI highly doubt you could do this with Samsung back in the day
Those curved screens are a big hindrance and it also what made them expensive
@@omonighoprogressoghenetejiri i was referring to s7edge so yeah you probably right😂
i switched to iphone afyer that one so i dont know samsung prices anymore
Bit of safety warning: That N95 mask doesn’t protect against fumes, only particulates
If that glue remover is actually of concern, you’d be much better off ventilating the area with fresh air
Stay safe brother👊
And the „reproductive harm“ does sound like better not want to have kids in the future if you are just using a N95 mask now.
Using a dust mask instead of a respirator. 😂
thanks for the info!
yeah if he's doing this you need a ventilation system.
@@PhoneRepairGuru if you do this often, build a small fume hood like they use in a chemistry lab. a box with one side open with some fans sucking the air to blow it outside
Here in India, most of the most of the mobile repairing guys do this, it’s cheap and works like a charm
Some how I am no surprised.
@@zenmoto369yes...., here in Pakistan they replace the whole part, that's more better
@@zenmoto369 obviously you are not - land of jugard India 😂😂😭😭
@@IbrahimMuhammad-ts5bx are you for real
@@potatoeaterfr what do you mean...
Its so cool that modern phone screens have the touchsensoring/digitizer on the display itself not on the glass like old phone screens.
A few years ago I had a neighbor fully specialized in that method. He separated the glas with a laser machine and used an oven to harden an adhesive. Pretty wild, but he gave up ob his business. I always appreciated to keep the original quality of the screens.
Wow he has 4 hands 4:11
He Use His Omnitrix to transform into _Four Arms_
Um....actually , it's probably a different person. You see, humans generally have only 2 arms
And I have 3 legs what's the big deal
@@dan-kt6vm do you have proof?
Garmodon!!! ( I think I misspelt that)
There's something absolutely magical about seeing a naked OLED display. The closest you'll see in day to day life is in folding devices.
I'm really happy to see you finally getting in on this!
Take OLED off and that crazy asf
The oled displays made by samsung
Because samsung make oled displays for iphone
@@angelofgod475 Okay?
No, there's a lot of additional layer of protection over the OLED screen on a folding device and even a layer of real glass. It's just still flexible too
It’s wild to think, I’ve been watching your content for over a year and learned so much. And now finally released my first iPhone repair video! Thank you and keep up the good work 🎉
Dropped you a sub and watched the video, great work for your first crack at it, but one suggestion would be to be a little more specific in the title of what the repair is for, might help to get some more eyes on your content! 🤌🏻
Indian here we have been doing this with every possible phone to save the original displays just replacing the glass shocked to see you guys coming across this just now
Yeah respect for yall repair shops in india. I got my iPad repaired for so cheap
This guy is just doing this. There's a phone shop in San Diego that's been doing this for a while
@@devisals guys ever visit Indian try to visit a local big market you for.mobile repair and have indian guy with you , you will be saving alot it's a promise
bro please tell me how
Yeah i was about to say this
I’m not a native English speaker but I’ve always thought the “screen” was the glass, and what’s below was the display. Naturally speaking we are used to refer to “screen” as the whole screen-display assembly, but it was a bit funny hearing him saying that he was going to replace the glass but not the screen
Also, I’ve come to assume the word screen means some kind of light protection, like the screen door that is used to keep bugs out (right? We don’t have tons in my hometown so not sure)
at least, now you know.
I'm also non-native speaker, I think it's the same case as "wheels" and "tires" (or tyres) in car terms.
Wheels are supposed to consist of rim and tire. But a lot of people refer rim as wheel and "changing tire" means changing the whole rim and tire, not just the rubber part.
@@NurAdinugraha No changing the tyre would mean changing the rubber, not the whole wheel. The only time changing the tyre would be the whole thing would be on racing cars such as F1
3:39 forbidden dental floss
i think its closer to a type of monofilament wire
@@bobsoft r/wooosh
@@CaptainRex332blud thinks he's on Reddit 💀
@@LoganT547 blud thinks he’s funny with that trash joke
@@CaptainRex332blud thinks he tryna be funny
this does actually look interesting, and although it's a long process, I seriously think people (and the planet ofc) could benefit more.
That’s a pretty nerve wrecking repair. I’ve replaced glass on a few phones before and every time your booty is puckered up the entire time hoping you didn’t damage the screen itself lol 😂
😭☠️☠️
In india we've been doing this since like Galaxy S2/S3 days. I've done so many repairs on my own phones without these fancy tools/machines. I used a hair dryer and a blade to gently remove the glass, IPA to clean the glue off, LOCA and manual alignment for gluing and a nail polish UV light to set the glue.
I don't know if PRG will see this comment but I myself am really interested in the refurbishment of devices and screens. I watch a lot of videos from Rewa Tech and in one of their videos of glass replacement, they explicitly mentioned not to press the glass/screen when aligning the glass on the screen in the mold as you did at 7:34. They even showed that when you press the glass and screen before putting it in the machine, it came out with bubbles in it even after debubbling and lamination. If you just place the glass on top, properly aligning it, it will come out without any bubbles. Rewa Tech has really good tutorials.
The machine is only 530€, which is very cheap (i expected at least a thousand tbh)
It pays itself off after 2 replacements. But keep in mind it's just a glorified vacuum pump.
@@Concorde002 it's more than that tbh, but yeah, it pays off fast
@@tigersusyt not really, it's a vacuum pump with a heating element and it redirects both of those to two different spots...
I'm so glad you did a video on this! I remember a few years ago i stumbled upon a channel called ECDIY (shoutouts to them) who started making advancements in this field (or at least tried to popularize them) by hand, and I always wished this kind of repair would take off, so I'm really glad you could popularize it for a big audience!
It's cool to see that nowadays, whole machines exist to assist with these repairs. If we can standardize and shorten this whole process someday, we could revolutionize phone display repair
One thing to remember is that the new glass probably wont be as strong as the old one, so its good to use a screen protector once it's replaced 👍
Like there are many different qualities of screens, there are different qualities of glass out there too! :)
I am from India and, I saved my iPhone 15 Pro’s screen by this method in our local market. Surprisingly it costed me only 2999 Indian rupees which is 36 US Dollars..😊
No it's not @mrfoxesite69482
I’ve done it with an Apple Watch display.
The small form factor was helpful and I had no bubbles.
But removal was a nightware
wait till apple serialize the glass too
You cant serialize glass
@@KawaiiGames873 ik it's just a joke
Who knows its apple anything is possible 😂
It is bc SN is in the touch control not in the oled
@@KawaiiGames873 in some cars windshield needs to be replaced by an authorised person because it needs to be programmed to the car. So if cars can do that why Apple can't do that. Don't forget that Apple is a company that serialize anything
I tried this before - safe to say i failed miserably
Tried it to, cut into some kind of polarizing film at one of the corners but it still worked.
@@tamastenhaaff2291 no theactual pannel got like 81067 lines
@@tamastenhaaff2291 i somehow got 819234821 multi colored lines and purple killing the rest of the screen
Amazing video.
I used to work at a screen refurbishing/tech shop, and, the process doesn't take 6-8 hours. One of our core revenue streams was to get the iPhone from the customer, and refurbish their screen for 50% of the price Apple charges for a screen replacement. It usually was a 45 to 60 minute job, IF and only IF the polarizer layer was damaged while removing the glass and needed to be replaced. If it didnt, we could roll a screen out every 30 minutes. Not sure how long the machine you have in the video takes, but the lamination process on the machine we had usually took 1 minute to complete. The most tedious and delayed part of the process was getting the OCA cleaned off.
Still, this was our bread and butter and we had about 100k into machinery and infrastructure. The fact alone that you are being able to do this in your house, is amazing
The wire was handled by 2 rollers that moved back and forth while you pushed the hot plate towards the wire, so removing the glass was about 30 to 45 seconds
Cleaning was about 15 minutes
We had multi layer molds, more like a guide, first layer is a solid aluminium block, then next layer is an aluminum guide sheet, in there we put a rubber block, then another guide sheet, on top of the guide sheet goes the OCA, then another guide sheet, and then the glass on top, in goes to the vacuum press to be fused together. This was about 3 minutes to assemble, and 1 minute for the machine to do it's thing
After the glass and the OCA were fused, a different rubber block was installed on the solid aluminium block, then a different guide, for the screen, then another guide, then the glass&OCA assembly. There's a bit of cleaning on the screen here to make it spotless after putting it on the guide. Assembly and cleaning was about 5 minutes. In it goes to the vacuum press for another minute, and that's it, about 25 minutes. If the polarizer was damaged, removing the old one, cleaning, and installing a new one, would add about 25 minutes to the process, but remove the 15 minute cleaning step on the normal process as the new polarizer is already clean. So it's more like adding 10 minutes
shush wasteman
@yologeng4501 ?
That's fascinating! Is the suction hot plate really required or can you simply use an iron or an oven to heat the glue on the broken glass?
@@zer0nix an iron, and a poker card will work, but success is not guaranteed, lol. The poker card tends to bend upwards towards the screen
Now do it again but replace the glass with a sheet of lab grown diamond 👀
Hello friend . After u done pls make sure to put some cold press in between the frame and the oled . Else the frame can fall off a few moths or line will appear from now as u have now has cut off the orginal a glue . Don't need a lot :-) well done
Not only did I learn a lot, but I enjoyed watching this video.
In India every repair shop does this they only take 30 to 45 mins so even thought it took few hrs for you do it regularly you’ll get the hang of it
Awesome video man!
How long has your account been verify
@@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2 couple months
@@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2couple months
Much Appreciated!
If you can do it, please try making an foldable iPhone, it would be pretty cool to see!
Btw great video!
OLED is one thing but the geometry of the board and battery would prevent this
Curved iphone is a better idea
Casually suggesting a dude on youtube so something that cost Samsung, Huawei, etc billions in R&D lol.
In my country its very common to change only the glass layer
It takes like 30 mins
Also on android you dont have to take the screen off the device you could do it while the device is working
Its like 5$ total
If it fails the repair shop replaces the screen using his money
What's your country?
@@danielec egypt
I think india also do it
Kudos to you.
Not every phones display glass is this harder to replace, also no need of most costly machine. Yes it takes a lot of time and the process needs more skill than a regular repair. I got replaced my Mi11x (poco f3) display glass for around 20 usd in india from a local guy.
Many phone repairers in Nigeria still do it.
They say its a messy and risky 50/50 job but its worth it.
4:55 The wobbling Sound 😩
"Da wobaling sownd my briend " 👨🏾
Well now that the parts can be used on other phones as long as they aren’t marked as stolen, hopefully this allows repair shops to replace the screen, then fix like 10 of these in one go, and use those for future repairs!
I fixed my dad’s bricked 7 plus thanks to your videos! It’s now used as an iPod touch
This is a very common procedure in Bangladesh, available since the birth of smartphones. The process completes in less than an hour.
Im from Bangladesh lol
since the htc dream or whatever?
Don’t know why people never seen this before, this is a very popular technique in phone repair shops in Asia. I got my iPad Pro that the glass was cracked and was replaced, it still works perfectly fine.
Some repair shops here in the Philippines are doing this for some time now for almost all iphone models
Your getting better at this now you've reached a next level 👏 now
From pro to pro technicians when you using the mold to line up the glass and screen and have less bubbles after using debubbling machine don’t press the screen every there 7:35 see here what you doing. This is wrong just tap in the middle once that the glass stuck to the screen and then put it into the machine. Then you will have less bubbles or none bubbles after you’ve done it right put the screen under uv light.
4:49 Why does the touchscreen still work? Isn‘t the glass that you just removed the digitizer?
The glass is used to protect the digitizer
This is called Reglassing in our country and this us much cheaper and better than screen replacement except if the screen is literally broken
Back on the 3GS days this was much simpler since it wasn't laminated. You can actually still do this on base model iPads.
I had the glass only replaced on my 13 Pro, was the only option at the time (if doing it without Apple) because 3rd party 120hz iPhone displays weren’t a thing yet
Great informative video..👏👏
Great job u did.👌👌
i'm doing this many years in greece , love it and indeed you can make some money from this
Although this process can save a lot of money, it is also important to note that you have to be very very careful with the OLED panel beneath the glass. The panel itself has a fragile layer that when a wire is cut through too low, it can strip the layer, This damage will keep the actual display intact but will reveal a gold panel underneath. The display itself will still work completely however there will be a gold spot from where you cut too deep. Remember it's always important to go practice on your own on some useless or already broken displays before you attempt this on a much more important or a customer's phone. At the end of the day, it's always better to break a worthless screen in the present so you don't have to deal with issues later on.
Side note, if you want easier practice, Apple Watch displays don't really require that much of a setup and are much easier to separate the digitizer from the panel. Also, you won't need a lamination machine for the OCA glue which will be much much more expensive and you can instead just use some Liquid OCA (LOCA) along with a UV curing light. GL y'all!
This is growth in technic and skill🔥 excellent tutorial
can you do screen replacement for iphone x,mine fell and showed the black screen of death
In our country, it is a service they give at some repair shops here. I think it is cheaper than getting the screen replaced.
I know of a business that just deals with screen refurbishment (great business btw). They've good experience and it takes maybe an hour or even less to refurbish a single screen which is worth it. When it's busy the place turns into a money minting machine. And also you can use the wire holder instead of chopping of the fingers.
Nice that all one is a game changer. No more dust free rooms
I've seen where they take it one step further where then ensure that the dust and water seal are back to near factory quality. From what I understand the phones are placed in a depressurizing chamber to ensure that it has a tight seal.
Honestly with how expensive these screens are, I’m tempted to invest in one of these machines for my shop
That spiny thing is the ultimate "do not clean your ears" with this tool! But I would try it!
Jerry fu... ehem rig everything and you fix them, nice job 🙌
Just did this to my ROG phone 7 bc there is no way to know if there are original displays with same quality. So the technician told me about this process and was the best! Only on screen fingerprint have problems but it's my phone just for gaming so it's a win
Great video as always! Good soup PRG! We love you all❤
You are extremely talented and awesome PRG
I do this at my work
The most annoying thing is you can't stick the Glass and LCD 2x, so if you don't have a mount to put the LCD and Glass in 1 job sticking with precision with the LCD, you can't just remove it because it's tilted a little, you might damage the LCD.
A lot of the LCDs I work on are android, so the screen size is different for each phone and type and there is no mount that fits, I usually install it with precision using the Frame from the phone itself
A diy method for this is buying just the vaccum and headplate which cost around 30-40$ and then using LOCA so you dont need that 1000$ machine you showed in the video for lamination as loca just needs uv light
HVAC vacuum pump
the machine in video is 530$ but ok
@@pixGu i couldn't check the price of the link in the video as it's for repair shops only but on aliexpress it costs around 1000$
@@pixGu Was that USD? For those of us in Canada like the PhoneRepairGuru , that amounts to more like 1,000$
@@smarttechn1calyou can google the price. Man how american are you to be unable to use simple google search...
Dont push new glass when aplaing to the lcd just push in one corner to fix the glass so it doesnt move in machine if you trap the air betwene glass and oled its hard to remove it
its quite a popular method for my country, creators like stanisla are showing to the whole community its possible for a few years now
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To be honest in vietnam we do this alot because it cheap - the trade of is the replacement glass can be weaker , some place will charge more money for higher quality glass
Saw this a while back and always wondered why there’s so little coverage about the technique on TH-cam
Fr i have been thinking the same
Doing this for past 5 years...😂😂
I'm master in this now...
Another lovely video! I learned a lot from you again. Thank you so much PRG!
What if you put 15 Pros ProMotion display on base iPhone 15. Please make a video about it
You can use uv light to detect some dust
During relamination, creating a vacuum would make the bubbles bigger and help them want to escape the glass. Creating higher pressure should make it so any remaining small bubbles are forced to be significantly smaller so they’re not visible in the glue. It shouldn’t be making them actually go away. They’re just sealed in.
Love your videos PRG
I loved your video very detailed, I used to refurbish glass back in the day on iPhone 5 that seems pretty easy the iPhone 13 Pro could you do 14 and 15 next
is the glass you replace still a ceramic shield or is it other type of glass
and can you compare the refurbished one to a non refurbish screen see how's it look
In India every repair shop does this. The vacuum chamber and vacuum sucky sucky are separate but ya they does get the work done.
Im subbed to the official Refox channel and they do crazy stuff for iDevice repairs. Awesome.
thanks bro.
Just a fact some phone repair shops uses not as strong glass as oem so it is not that strong. So it is more brittle I lost my note 10 lite after changing glass this way when I dropped it again.
I tried this, but on samsung s4 mini, bought glass, wire, using my 3d printer as heated plate, but I don't have this cool machine so I bought LOCA glue, same as OCA but liquid and a bit messy, and everything still work :D
I saw the title and was so excited thinking I could attempt this on an iPad. lol good luck
Here in Pakistan all the screen repair shops have these massive machines like one you have there and it takes like an hour or less to repair glass worh 100 percent result every time ..
If you don’t remove the frame from the screen and change it with a new one bubbles will return. Also not changing the frame will lead to seperation
9:40 I thought the screen was broken.
Me too probably part of the glue…
i used to do this way before the lamination and oca, when bonding the glass to the screen we use a UV glue called LOCA, and we use uv light to cure it. still the skill required to do this is very high not recommend for 1st time DIYers. if you want to learn the LOCA method i suggest practicing on old oleds like the iphone x or xs.
Are there any aftermarket sapphire glasses out there for the iPhone or other phones in general? BC honestly, if there was a way to get a sapphire glass fused to a phone you could make infinitely more durable screens in the process and justify the tedious repair job... I mean surely there are manufacturers in China (or elsewhere) that could custom cut sapphire screens in low quantities. Together with the steel and carbon backplates you showed recently this could make for a super durable iPhone...
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My first phone repair completed last week to change the loud speaker and battery. When I separated the screens the glass only seperated and my inexperience didn’t realise. So I cut away all the adhesive until I got to the top edge and noticed the glass coming away from the earpiece notch. Whoops
There is 3 way to repair lcd
1:change the glass like this video
2:change the lcd but the important massage will go up and u can use software to hack into the phone and the phone will think its the original screen kinda like battery too there is battery hack can show the battery health but its not the original battery
3: change the lcd take the chip of the old lcd and copy the old lcd for the true tone function and blower the chip back to new lcd…. In that way u have the truetone and no important massage will go up
I like use the 3rd method 😄😄😄
Edit: if im wrong please correct me
This is a way cheaper and smarter way to replace the display than getting a new display
Nicely done 👏
PRG is great Phone Repair Guru❤❤
Yea, we've been doin this for soo long now here in India. For iPhone 11 Pro it barely cost me 15$ when I got it done a couple of years ago. And it took the guy just an hour.
exactly
where did you get it done? The Karol Bagh?
Most probably @@mohdghani7171
Well done bro🎉👍.It's been doing in India long time ago
For newer phones like 13 pro max n so on, replacing the entire screen(authorized apple parts,not 3rd party one like gx n stuff on aliexpress) is costly and usually is the last resort when the display is broken
If the display is not broken, then it’s better to just replace the glass and touch sensor if it’s been damaged.
I'm a mobile phone repairs tech and one of the steps I cringed on was when he applied the new glass, if your work space is even a tiny bit dusty, DO NOT (and I repeat) DO NOT PUT THE GLASS IN THE MOLD AND PLACE THE OLED OVER IT
If you want the best possible result, place the OLED in the mold (which is what its designed for). Clean it up good, id recommend getting a Green Light Dust Detector as that's gonna help you even more
THEN apply the new glass with the OCA glue already on, be careful not to touch the back of the glass with the OCA glue cause that finger print will be permanent and isn't coming away!
This process has many cons too. Personally me and my cousin have gotten just the glass replaced and we'll it fucked up the display. The display started to auto operate and lose touch sensitivity from time to time. So from experience this repair process is not very reliable. Note got the glass replaced on different phones and different repair shops but similar issues with all of them.
You can do this from iphone 12 amd up. Therew kits that they sell on ebay using LOCA instead of OCA glue. LOCA doesnt require the !achine but its pretty much same procedure
Great Video, However you don't need the machine to screen refurbish like you said, you can just use a razor and heta gun and fishing line to remove the hold screen and to glue the new screen on you use not a glass with preinstalled glue, plain glass and apply your own UV activated LOCA glue, and as liquid will naturally force out any bubbles.
This method is quite common in India 😅... Btw love from India ❤... I'm a new subscriber and I really love your videos.
Always start from the bottom of the display, less chance of damaging the notch area
you are the best repair man ever