We’ve all been there; we’ve all been careless enough to witness our smartphones break, shatter, and even worse, just become a brick. Maybe we’re not careless because it ages but still, a lot of us have experienced a broken screen or a broken LCD.
Having to pay for the replacement of this is too much of a cost. I bet that once you read this, you will be confident enough to do it on your own. So, how do you replace or repair a broken screen or LCD of a smartphone?
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Know the problem first
So the first step in repairing anything is that you first have to know what the problem is. You can’t just go dissecting your phone not knowing what’s wrong because you’ll end up breaking it more so you really have to know what’s wrong with it.
The Screen
You will know if the only thing that’s broken is the screen when you see cracks along the face of your phone but it does not affect how you use it; if it has cracks but you can still pass the touch test, if you can still type properly, use it accordingly then you wouldn’t have a big problem
Lcd/digitizer
If your phone has spots, or if the touch doesn’t seem to be going right, then the problem is not with the screen alone anymore. The digitizer is the layer in which it is the one responsible for converting analog signals into digital signals; the way you see your devices flow naturally, that’s what the digitizer is. In the simplest terms, the digitizer is the one that senses your touch on a touch screen device. It is the one that covers the LCD; the layer above it.
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