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Replacing Screen?

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mildthought

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So, my Brand new Victory did a bellyflop onto the (wet) concrete in the dark this morning as I was using it as a flashlight.

The performance seems intact, *but* the screen is now as unique as a snowflake (ie, it's cracked. Badly.)

Being broke, my repair choices have come down to: https://www.amazon.com/gp/buy/shipoptionselect/handlers/display.html?hasWorkingJavascript=1

which can be here in 5 days, but does not include tools, or this: Replacement LCD Touch Screen Tools for Samsung L300 Galaxy Victory 4G ZVLT481 | eBay

which does include tools. (Or a similar no-tool package from etrade supply.)

Does anyone know any other options, or where I can buy some tools for this job?

Thanks!
 
Depending on the phone, most of the tools will be Torx drivers and a soldering iron (and solder and paste). It would also be helpful to have an electronic vise to hold the phone while you're working on it, a high-intensity lamp on a gooseneck, a large magnifying glass also on a gooseneck, the shop manual for the phone - oh, yes, and about 3-5 years of experience repairing cellphones.

Most of the "I've repaired it but ..." questions we see here end up "and it cost more to fix what I broke than the original repair would have been". After all, are you absolutely certain that the motherboard didn't crack when the phone fell? Or that some almost-cold solder joint didn't pop?

Asking where to buy tools to fix a cellphone is like asking where you can buy tools to repair a broken back - it says that you don't know what to do with the tools, so buying them would be a waste of time and money.

Sorry, but that's what 50 years of fixing what someone else "fixed" first usually shows.
 
I just recently took about 5 different phones. Except for a few parts that I should've been more cautious with, I was able to do it w/o damaging them further than they already were with a small Wenger pocket knife. I say get a high-intensity light as suggested above, find yourself a good precision screwdriver set (Samsung doesn't typically use Torx screws in my experience, but my last Samsung phone I dismantled was 2 years old).
 
Small Phillips screwdriver and Plastic pry tools.
I covered broken glass with tape to keep intact.
Use a hair dryer to warm and soften adhesive on broken glass.
 
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