Well i happened eventually, the glass broke. Sure enough taking it to school everyday and mucking around with my friends it smashed! but it was only the glass, the screen was fine and i could still use the touch screen through the broken glass. So as a confident teenager i thought ill try replace just the glass even though most threads have said its near impossible. There WRONG!!
1) i looked around and saw some people talking about their attempts and found to buy the following of ebay: iPhone screen OEM $29 (aus.)
2) i used this video of pdaparts.com how to take the iPhone appart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F38GcWUoTPM
3) The new glass arrived so i began taking the phone appart. I got the back of, and i the video they take the motherboard out also, dont. its not worth the trouble and you dont need to. just take the metal strip around the phone of.
4) At this time, i was ready to begin scraping the glass of, i thought to myself, if we can operate on peoples brains i can do this without breaking the digitizer. i done it very slowly, using a nail scraper and a hairdryer to heat up the silicone type glue making it a bit softer. Be careful not to put to much pressure on the second layer of glass (digitizer). This may take hours on end to remove the glass, i done it over two days. If you crack the digitizer anywhere its useless, i got a tiny chip off but lucky me it was on the bottom side and i could see all the links were unharmed.
5) Once all the glass is removed, there is still a fair bit of glue stuch to the digitizer. i used my fingernail to scrape the large sections of and then put the end of my jumper over my nail and scraped around which worked excellent to get the smaller amounts of glue of the screen.
6) Now you can turn the iphone on and test the touch screen still works well. i done this without placing the new glass over the top first then with the glass and worked fine.
7) I used a glue on the darkened sections only because i didnt have an optically clear glue. read around to determine what type of glue you will use but i would say done use something which will dry to hard because what if it happenes again?
8) now place the new screen back on (with home button placed right) then re-Assemble the phone.
If anyone else has managed to replace the glass only please say and give extra hints for people to use... Hope this helps anyone who was looking for it.
You do this at your own risk!!!
good luck
1) i looked around and saw some people talking about their attempts and found to buy the following of ebay: iPhone screen OEM $29 (aus.)
2) i used this video of pdaparts.com how to take the iPhone appart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F38GcWUoTPM
3) The new glass arrived so i began taking the phone appart. I got the back of, and i the video they take the motherboard out also, dont. its not worth the trouble and you dont need to. just take the metal strip around the phone of.
4) At this time, i was ready to begin scraping the glass of, i thought to myself, if we can operate on peoples brains i can do this without breaking the digitizer. i done it very slowly, using a nail scraper and a hairdryer to heat up the silicone type glue making it a bit softer. Be careful not to put to much pressure on the second layer of glass (digitizer). This may take hours on end to remove the glass, i done it over two days. If you crack the digitizer anywhere its useless, i got a tiny chip off but lucky me it was on the bottom side and i could see all the links were unharmed.
5) Once all the glass is removed, there is still a fair bit of glue stuch to the digitizer. i used my fingernail to scrape the large sections of and then put the end of my jumper over my nail and scraped around which worked excellent to get the smaller amounts of glue of the screen.
6) Now you can turn the iphone on and test the touch screen still works well. i done this without placing the new glass over the top first then with the glass and worked fine.
7) I used a glue on the darkened sections only because i didnt have an optically clear glue. read around to determine what type of glue you will use but i would say done use something which will dry to hard because what if it happenes again?
8) now place the new screen back on (with home button placed right) then re-Assemble the phone.
If anyone else has managed to replace the glass only please say and give extra hints for people to use... Hope this helps anyone who was looking for it.
You do this at your own risk!!!
good luck