Replace the iphone screen

This is the best video I could find describing how to Replace the iphone screen

Finally my iphone screen arrived this week and I could not wait to put it in an fix my iphone which had a broken touch panel, the lcd worked fine.

I already opened up my iphone so I thought it would be a quick job of replacing the screen. Wrong, it took me about 2 hours because the screen was glued to the plastic internal housing. I was scared to break any of the part that were not going to be replaced.

Here I have the back cover removed and the camera.


Removed the battery and mainboard from the iphone. The mainboard has 4 connections so be sure to remove these before you take it out.


This is never going to be an functioning Iphone again!

After a 2 hour battle I removed the iphone screen from the plastic housing.



Putting everything together took about 5% of the time it took to take it apart, no dramas there.
I hoped that it would work again cause otherwise I probably thrown the thing against the wall.
But, I turned it on and the touch screen worked great.
It took a reboot to get the top of the screen working too, don’t know why.
So a total of $150 Australian dollar was spend and close to day of my time but it was worth it. What a wicked little device.

How to open up your iphone

After my iphone screen was broken I researched How to open up your iphone.
You can fix the Iphone screen yourself by getting the right tools and take some time to do it. The screen can be quite hard to come by but it is a lot cheaper than getting it repaired with Apple.
I wanted to fix the iphone screen as soon as possible to start using my Iphone again.

Update:
This is the best video I could find how to open up your iphone

Yesterday I got an iphone opener tool and tried to undo the back casing. The ipod opener tools that I had where quite soft so they broke, a hard plastic iphone opener tool opened it up though.

Well I got the phone open and the touch sensor or digitizer seems broken for some reason. Time to order a new screen and replace it and hope that it will fix the iphone.

Some images I took while I opened it up.

Watch the video for full instructions on how to open up the iphone.

Read How I replaced my iphone screen