Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

iPod touch iPod Touch 3rd gen screen

I

iBryton

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jan 13, 2010
232
0
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

My 3rd generation iPod touch has a craz in the screen. Where can I spent the least amount of money to buy a new screen and how the hell would I install it?
 
Thing is, its not just a piece of glass, it's a touch screen. The touch sensitive layer, called a digitizer, is directly attached to the back of the glass. The whole thing would have to be replaced. I have used iResQ before and they do a pretty good job. They would want $75 to replace it which they say is a "special price" but I'm betting that's more than you had in mind. I saw the glass+digitizer itself for $42 (iDemiGods) but installing it is non-trivial. Another question is whether the LCD screen itself is damaged; it is under the digitizer layer.
 
Last edited:
As an Amazon Associate, MacRumors earns a commission from qualifying purchases made through links in this post.
I don't think the home button is part of it. It extends through it to the system board.
 
ACK. Don't mess with it yourself, take it to apple and they might offer to get it repaired or just give you a new one.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back